From: Bridge hosts, a missing link for disease ecology in multi-host systems
Host competence | Host contacts | Resources | Examples for AIV | ||||
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Method | Receptivity | Replication | Excretion | Contact/Maintenance | Contact/Target | ||
Experimental Infection | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | |||
Risk Analysis | x | x | x | ||||
Serological investigation | x | x | x | xx | |||
Virological investigation | xx | xx | xx | xx | xx | ||
Telemetry study | xxx | xxx | xxx | [39] | |||
Bird ringing and monitoring | xx | x | x | [40] | |||
Bird counts | xx | xx | x | ||||
Molecular epidemiology | xx | xx | xx | xx | xx | xxx |