Roberton, S.I, Bell, Diana, Smith, G.J.D., Nicholls, J.M, Chan, K.H, Nguyen, D.T, Tran, P.Q, Streicher, U, Poon, L.L.M, Chen, H, Horby, P, Guardo, M, Guan, Y and Peiris, J.S.M. (2006) Avian influenza H5N1 in viverrids: implications for wildlife health and conservation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 273 (1595). pp. 1729-1732. ISSN 1471-2954

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Abstract

The Asian countries chronically infected with avian influenza A H5N1 are ‘global hotspots’ for biodiversity conservation in terms of species diversity, endemism and levels of threat. Since 2003, avian influenza A H5N1 viruses have naturally infected and killed a range of wild bird species, four felid species and a mustelid. Here, we report fatal disseminated H5N1 infection in a globally threatened viverrid, the Owston's civet, in Vietnam, highlighting the risk that avian influenza H5N1 poses to mammalian and avian biodiversity across its expanding geographic range.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date Deposited:	01 Oct 2010 13:37
Last Modified:	11 Nov 2019 16:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/1140
DOI:	10.1098/rspb.2006.3549

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