Reliable Web Sources
Updated: July 2007
Overview/General/History
- Brown C.
Avian influenza: Virchow’s reminder [commentary].
American Journal of Pathology 2006; 168(1):6-8. PMID: 16400004
- Kilbourne ED.
Influenza pandemics of the 20th century.
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2006;1 2(1):9-14. PMID: 16494710
[From a special issue on Influenza]
- Lal SK, ed.
Biology of emerging viruses: SARS, avian and human influenza, metapneumovirus, Nipah, West Nile, and Ross River Virus.
Boston: Blackwell Publishing, 2007.
- Marra P.
Migratory connectivity and movement of avian disease [video]. Forum on avian reservoirs of human pathogens, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies’ Center for EcoEpidemiology.
- Morens DM, Fauci AS.
The 1918 influenza pandemic: insights for the 21st century.
Journal of Infectious Diseases 2007; 195:1018-28. PMID: 17330793
- Orent W.
The science of avian flu: answers to nine frequently asked questions.
Discover 2006; Feb:59-61.
- Osterholm MT.
Preparing for the next pandemic.
New England Journal of Medicine 2005; 352(18):1839-42. PMID: 15872196
- Palese P.
Influenza: old and new threats [review].
Nature Medicine 2004; 10(12):S82-7. PMID: 15577936
- Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, University of Georgia.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 and wild birds.
- Suri S.
Avian influenze (bird flu).
ProQuest Discovery Guide, July 2007.
Birds
- Brown JD, Stallknecht DE, Beck JR, Suarez DL, Swayne DE.
Susceptibility of North American ducks and gulls to H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus.
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2006; 12(11):1663-70. PMID: 17283615
- Brown JD, Swayne DE, Cooper RJ, Burns RE, Stallknecht DE.
Persistence of H5 and H7 avian influenza viruses in water.
Avian Diseases 2007; 51(1 Suppl):285-9. PMID: 17494568
- Ducatez MF, Tarnagda Z, Tahita MC, Sow A, de Landtsheer S, Londt BZ, Brown IH, Osterhaus ADME, Fouchier RAM, Ouedraogo JBB, Muller CP.
Genetic characterization of HPAI (H5N1) viruses from poultry and wild vultures, Burkina Faso.
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2007; 13(4):611-4. PMID: 17553279
- Gauthier-Clerc M, Lebarbenchon C, Thomas F.
Recent expansion of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1: a critical review.
Ibis 2007; 149(2):202-14.
- Hanson BA, Stallknecht DE, Swayne DE, Lewis LA, Senne DA.
Avian influenza viruses in Minnesota ducks during 1998-2000.
Avian Diseases 2003; 47:867-71.
- Jourdain E, Gauthier-Clerc M, Bicout DJ, Sabatier P.
Bird migration routes and risk for pathogen dispersion into western Mediterranean wetlands.
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2007; 13(3):365-72. PMID: 17552088
- Kilpatrick AM, Chmura AA, Gibbons DW, Fleischer RC, Marra PP, Daszak P.
Predicting the global spread of H5N1 avian influenza.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 2006; 103(51):19368-73. PMID: 17158217
- Lipatov AS, Evseenko VA, Yen HL, Zaykovskaya AV, Durimanov AG, Zolotykh SI, Netesov SV, Drozdov IG, Onishchenko GG, Webster RG, Shestopalov AM.
Influenza (H5N1) viruses in poultry, Russian Federation, 2005-2006.
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2007; 13(4):539-46. PMID: 17553267
- Rappole JH, Hubálek Z.
Birds and influenza H5N1 virus movement to and within North America.
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2006; 12(10):1486-92. PMID: 17176561
- Wallensten A, Munster VJ, Latorre-Margalef N, Brytting M, Elmberg J, Fouchier RAM, Fransson T, Haemig PD, Karlsson M, Lundkvist A, Osterhous ADME, Stervander M, Waldenström J, Olsen B.
Surveillance of influenza A virus in migratory waterfowl in northern Europe.
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2007; 13(3):404-11. PMID: 17552093
- Winker K, McCracken KG, Gibson DD, Pruett CL, Meier R, Huettmann F, Wege M, Kulikova IV, Zhuravlev YN, Perdue ML, Spackman E, Suarez DL, Swayne DE.
Movements of birds and avian influenza from Asia into Alaska.
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2007;13(4):547-52. PMID: 17553268
Humans
- de Jong MD, Simmons CP, Thanh TT, Hien VM, Smith GJD, Chau TNB, Hoang DM, Chau NVV, Khanh TH, Dong VC, Qui PT, Cam BV, Ha DQ, Guan Y, Peiris JSM, Chinh NT, Hien TT, Farrar J.
Fatal outcome of human influenza A (H5N1) is associated with high viral load and hypercytokinemia.
Nature Medicine 2006; 12(10):1203-7. PMID: 16964257
- Hallman WK.
Rutgers [Food Policy Institute] Study Shows Avian Influenza on People’s Minds.
Rutgers press release, June 11, 2007.
- Liu F, Slifka MK.
Meeting report: Keystone conference on viral immunity: from basic mechanisms to vaccines (X7) and Advances in influenza research: from birds to bench to bedside (X8).
Viral Immunity 2006; 19(3):584-9.
- Matrosovich MN, Matrosovich TY, Gray T, Roberts NA, Klenk H-D.
Human and avian influenza viruses target different cell types in culture of human airway epithelium.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 2004; 101(13):4620-4624. PMID: 15070767
- Ortiz JR, Wallis TR, Katz MA, Berman LS, Balish A, Lindstrom SE, Veguilla V, Teates KS, Katz JM, Klimov A, Uyeki TM.
No evidence of avian influenza A (H5N1) among returning US travelers.
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2007; 13(2):294-7. PMID: 17479895
- Shinya K, Ebina M, Yamada S, Ono M, Kasai N, Kawaoka Y.
Influenza virus receptors in the human airway.
Nature 2006; 440:435-6. PMID: 16554799
- Smallman-Raynor M, Cliff AD.
Avian influenza A (H5N1) age distribution in humans. (letter)
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2007; 13(3):510-2.
- Stevens J, Blixt O, Tumpey TM, Taubenberger JK, Paulson JC, Wilson IA.
Structure and receptor specificity of hemagglutinin from an H5N1 influenza virus.
Science 2006; 312:404-410. PMID: 16543414
- Uiprasertkul M, Kitphati R, Puthavathana P, Kriwong R, Kongchanagul A, Ungchusak K, Angkasekwinai S, Chokephaibulkit K, Srisook K, Vanprapar N, Auewarakul P.
Apotosis and pathogenesis of avian influenza A (H5N1) virus in humans.
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2007; 13(5):708-12. PMID: 17553248
- van Riel D, Munster VJ, de Wit E, Rimmelzwaan GF, Fouchier RAM, Osterhaus ADME, Kuiken T.
H5N1 virus attachment to lower respiratory tract.
Science 2006; 312:399. PMID: 16556800
- Webby R, Hoffmann E, Webster R.
Molecular constraints to interspecies transmission of viral pathogens.
Nature Medicine 2004; 10(12):S77-81. PMID: 15577935