CSIRO Livestock Industries
Australian Animal Health Laboratory
CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) is Australia’s National high containment quarantine facility, located in Geelong, Victoria. AAHL is an OIE, FAO and a National and Regional (SE Asia) Reference Laboratory for avian influenza (AI). Staff members are OIE Designated Experts for AI, advisors to the National Influenza Pandemic Action Committee (NIPAC) and members of the Scientific Committee of the OIE/FAO Influenza Network (OFFLU).
Five recent relevant publications:
- Moore, R.J. Doran, T.J. Wise T.G., Riddell S., Granger K., Crowley T.M., Jenkins K.A., Karpala A.J., Bean A.G.D. and Lowenthal J. W. (2005). Chicken functional genomics. Aust. J. Exp. Agric. 45: 749-756.
- Jarosinski, K.W., B.L. Njaa, P.H. O’Connell, and K.A. Schat. (2005). Pro-inflammatory responses in chicken spleen and brain tissues after infection with very virulent Marek’s disease virus. Viral Immunol. 18: 148-161.
- Selleck PW, Arzey G, Kirkland PD, Reece RL, Gould AR, Daniels PW, Westbury HA. (2003). An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Australia in 1997 caused by an H7N4 virus. Avian Dis. 47: 806-811
- Hilton L.S. Bean A.G.D., and Lowenthal J.W. (2002). The emerging role of avian cytokines as immunotherapeutics and vaccine adjuvants. Vet. Immunol. Immunopatol. 85, 119-128.
- Boyle DB, Selleck P, Heine HG. (2000). Vaccinating chickens against avian influenza with fowlpox recombinants expressing the H7 haemagglutinin. Aust Vet J. 78: 44-48.
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