Melville D S, Shortridge K F
Kadoorie Agricultural Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Lett Appl Microbiol. 2006 May;42(5):435-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2006.01892.x.
The role of wild birds in the spread of influenza H5N1 virus remains speculative and the ecology of influenza A viruses in nature is largely unstudied. There is an urgent need for multidisciplinary studies to explore the ecology of avian influenza viruses in wild birds and the environment to support ecological interpretation of the source of disease outbreaks in poultry.
野生鸟类在H5N1流感病毒传播中的作用仍存在推测性,甲型流感病毒在自然界中的生态学在很大程度上尚未得到研究。迫切需要开展多学科研究,以探索野生鸟类和环境中禽流感病毒的生态学,从而为家禽疾病暴发源头的生态学解释提供支持。