Isolasi dan Identifikasi Wabah Avian Influenza pada Bulan Oktober 2004-Maret 2005 di Indonesia

Abstract

ABSTRACT
Isolation and Identification of Avian Influenza Outbreak in October 2004 - March 2005
in Indonesia. Recent outbreak of avian influenza A (HSNI) in poultry throughout Asia
including Indonesia caused major economic problems. Bird's infection with this virus was
identified in Indonesia in January 2004. Since March 2004, the avian influenza cases has
decreased, but then in October 2004 was reported that outbreak has occurred in some district
in Indonesia. This study is the first to isolation and identification the avian influenza outbreak
in Indonesia in October 2004 until March 2005. Our finding revealed that outbreak of poultry
disease in this period was caused by an avian influenza H5 subtype.
Keywords: Identification, virus avian influenza subtype H5