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Avian influenza: implications for Australia
- Source :
- Microbiology Australia. 27:85
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- CSIRO Publishing, 2006.
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Abstract
- Avian influenza (AI) or ?bird flu? is a highly contagious viral infection of birds. Some AI viruses, called ?highly pathogenic avian influenza? (HPAI) viruses, can cause sudden high mortality (up to 100%) in domestic fowl (chickens). AI viruses are classified into subtypes on the basis of haemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N) projections on their surface. There are 16 H and nine N types and, to date, all outbreaks of HPAI have been caused by H5 or H7 viruses.
- Subjects :
- Microbiology (medical)
animal structures
biology
Bird flu
viruses
Fowl
Highly pathogenic
High mortality
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
food and beverages
virus diseases
Outbreak
medicine.disease_cause
biology.organism_classification
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Microbiology
Viral infection
Virology
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1
medicine
biology.protein
Neuraminidase
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13244272
- Volume :
- 27
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Microbiology Australia
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........2c13b0d91172059a2998ab3402b009af