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| Kawamoto,Adélia Hiroko Nagamori; Mancini,Dalva Assunção Portari; Pereira,Luiz Eloy; Cianciarullo,Aurora Marques; Cruz,Aurea Silveira; Dias,Andrea Luppi Fernandes; Mendonça,Rita Maria Zucatelli; Pinto,José Ricardo; Durigon,Edison Luiz. |
| Birds are the most important reservoirs of the influenza virus. Its maintenance in its natural hosts, including man, allows the influenza virus to reassorts its strains. The recent report of an avian influenza A (H5N1) virus in humans, was in a child with fatal respiratory illness in China, 1997. The current study was conducted to elucidate the transportation of the influenza by birds that migrate, annually, through the both Northern and Southern hemispheres, with special attention paid to the Vireo olivaceus [Juruviara(BR) or Red-eyed vireo(USA)] species, which travels from the USA to Brazil, and vice versa, and the Elaenia mesoleuca [Tuque(BR) or (USA)] species that flies over the entire Southern Hemisphere. There are two species of birds, which breed... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Migrating birds; Brazilian avian influenza virus. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822005000100017 |
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