Roberton, S. I., Bell, D. J., 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:	13 Aug 2022 01:25
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/1140
DOI:	10.1098/rspb.2006.3549

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