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Strategies and challenges for eliciting immunity against avian influenza virus in birds.
Immunological reviews - 1 Oct 2008
Swayne David E, Kapczynski Darrell
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SUMMARY: Vaccines and vaccination have emerged during the past two decades as essential tools in avian influenza (AI) control for poultry, because they increase resistance to infection, prevent illness and death, reduce virus replication and shed from respiratory and alimentary tracts, and reduce virus transmission to birds and mammals, including humans. Such protection in birds is primarily mediated by...
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