Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease: A Field and Laboratory Manual

198 Pages·2009·12.93 MB·English

by  Ilaria Capua DVM, PhD (auth.), Ilaria Capua, Dennis J. Alexander (eds.)

Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease
A Field and Laboratory Manual
Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease
A Field and Laboratory Manual
Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease
A Field and Laboratory Manual
Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease
A Field and Laboratory Manual
Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease
A Field and Laboratory Manual
Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease
A Field and Laboratory Manual
2 Ecology and Epidemiology of Newcastle Disease III
Ilaria Capua · Dennis J. Alexander
Editors
Avian Influenza and
Newcastle Disease
A Field and Laboratory Manual
Foreword by Joseph Domenech and Bernard Vallat
IV D.J.Alexander
Editors
Ilaria Capua Dennis J. Alexander
Head, Virology Department Former Director EU
Director, OIE/FAO and OIE/FAO Reference Laboratory
National Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza and
for Newcastle Disease and Avian Influenza Newcastle Disease
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie Veterinary Laboratory Agencies
Legnaro, Padua, Italy Weybridge, UK
[email protected] [email protected]
The Editors and the Publishers wish to thank Papi Editore for the permission to re-use part of the figures published
in the volume Acolour Atlas and Text on Avian Influenza (I. Capua, F. Mutinelli). ©2001, Papi Editore
Cover illustration:courtesy of Amelio Meini
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