Spatial, temporal, and species variation in prevalence of influenza A viruses in wild migratory birdsVincent J Munster
Department of Virology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
PLoS Pathog 3:e61. 2007
..Dabbling ducks were more frequently infected than other ducks and Anseriformes; this distinction was probably related to bird ..
- Association of RIG-I with innate immunity of ducks to influenza
Megan R W Barber
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:5913-8. 2010
b>Ducks and wild waterfowl perpetuate all strains of influenza viruses in nature. In their natural host, influenza viruses typically cause asymptomatic infection and little pathology...
A review of avian influenza in different bird speciesD J Alexander
Avian Virology, VLA Weybridge, Addlestone, Surrey, UK
Vet Microbiol 74:3-13. 2000
..of low virulence for poultry have been recorded in surveillance studies, giving overall figures of about 15% for ducks and geese and around 2% for all other species...
- Continued evolution of H5N1 influenza viruses in wild birds, domestic poultry, and humans in China from 2004 to 2009
Yanbing Li
Animal Influenza Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and National Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, CAAS, 427 Maduan Street, Harbin 150001, People s Republic of China
J Virol 84:8389-97. 2010
..2 and 2.3 viruses. The majority of the viruses isolated from southern China were lethal in mice and ducks, while the CK/SX/2/06-like viruses caused mild disease in mice and could not replicate in ducks...
- Influenza A viruses of migrating wild aquatic birds in North America
Scott Krauss
Department of Infectious Diseases, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, USA
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 4:177-89. 2004
Surveillance of North America's wild ducks and shorebirds for 26 and 16 years, respectively, revealed differences in the prevalence of orthomyxoviruses between these hosts...
- Association of increased pathogenicity of Asian H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses in chickens with highly efficient viral replication accompanied by early destruction of innate immune responses
Koutaro Suzuki
Research Team for Zoonotic Diseases, National Institute of Animal Health NIAH, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization NARO, 3 1 5 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305 0856, Japan
J Virol 83:7475-86. 2009
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- Genetic evidence of intercontinental movement of avian influenza in a migratory bird: the northern pintail (Anas acuta)
Anson V Koehler
Alaska Science Center, US Geological Survey, 4210 University Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99508, USA
Mol Ecol 17:4754-62. 2008
..Our data support the role of wild birds in the intercontinental transfer of influenza viruses, and reveal a higher degree of transfer in Alaska than elsewhere in North America...
- Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in slaughtered chickens, ducks, and geese in Shenyang, northeastern China
Na Yang
College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province 110866, China
Parasit Vectors 5:237. 2012
In recent years, investigations of Toxoplasma gondii infection in poultry (chickens, ducks, and geese) have been reported worldwide, including China. However, little is known about the prevalence of T...
- Duck egg-drop syndrome caused by BYD virus, a new Tembusu-related flavivirus
Jingliang Su
Key Laboratory of Zoonosis of Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
PLoS ONE 6:e18106. 2011
..named BYD virus, was isolated in different areas, and a similar disease was reproduced in healthy egg-producing ducks, infecting with the isolated virus...
- Species and age related differences in the type and distribution of influenza virus receptors in different tissues of chickens, ducks and turkeys
Smitha P S Pillai
Food Animal Health Research Program, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio 44691, USA
Virol J 7:5. 2010
..acid (SA)-galactose (gal) (avian type) and alpha2,6SA-gal (human type) receptors on different tissues of chickens, ducks and turkeys of varying age groups...
- Cloning, expression and characterization of gE protein of duck plague virus
Hua Chang
Avian Diseases Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Yaan, Sichuan, China
Virol J 7:120. 2010
..The gE protein of duck plague virus is the important membrane glycoprotein, its protein characterization has not been reported. In this study, we expressed and presented the characterization of the DPV gE product...
- Avian influenza shedding patterns in waterfowl: implications for surveillance, environmental transmission, and disease spread
Viviane Hénaux
University of Wisconsin, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
J Wildl Dis 47:566-78. 2011
..quantity of low pathogenic (LP) and highly pathogenic (HP) virus shed via oral and cloacal routes by AI-infected ducks and geese, and how these factors might influence AI epidemiology and virus detection...
- Influenza virus in a natural host, the mallard: experimental infection data
Elsa Jourdain
Section for Zoonotic Ecology and Epidemiology, School of Natural Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
PLoS ONE 5:e8935. 2010
Wild waterfowl, particularly dabbling ducks such as mallards (Anas platyrhynchos), are considered the main reservoir of low-pathogenic avian influenza viruses (LPAIVs)...
- Avian influenza among waterfowl hunters and wildlife professionals
James S Gill
University of Iowa Hygienic Laboratory, 102 Oakdale Campus, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 12:1284-6. 2006
..Two laboratory methods showed evidence of past infection with influenza A/H11N9, a less common virus strain in wild ducks, in these 3 persons.
- A duck enteritis virus-vectored bivalent live vaccine provides fast and complete protection against H5N1 avian influenza virus infection in ducks
Jinxiong Liu
State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, CAAS, 427 Maduan Street, Harbin 150001, People s Republic of China
J Virol 85:10989-98. 2011
b>Ducks play an important role in the maintenance of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses (AIVs) in nature, and the successful control of AIVs in ducks has important implications for the eradication of the disease in poultry and ..
- Ducks: the "Trojan horses" of H5N1 influenza
Jeong Ki Kim
Division of Virology, Department of Infectious Diseases, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105 3678, USA
Influenza Other Respir Viruses 3:121-8. 2009
Wild ducks are the main reservoir of influenza A viruses that can be transmitted to domestic poultry and mammals, including humans...
- Influence of body condition on influenza A virus infection in mallard ducks: experimental infection data
Dustin M Arsnoe
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e22633. 2011
..The mechanisms responsible for reducing host competency among birds in poor condition remain unknown. Our research indicates body condition may influence the maintenance and spread of LPAIV by migrating waterfowl...
- Replication and pathogenesis associated with H5N1, H5N2, and H5N3 low-pathogenic avian influenza virus infection in chickens and ducks
Egbert Mundt
Department of Population Health, Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Arch Virol 154:1241-8. 2009
..associated with low-pathogenic H5N1, H5N2, or H5N3 avian influenza virus (AIV) infection of chickens and ducks was performed...
- Susceptibility of Muscovy (Cairina Moschata) and mallard ducks (Anas Platyrhynchos) to experimental infections by different genotypes of H5N1 avian influenza viruses
Do Quy Phuong
National Institute of Veterinary Research, 86 Truong Chinh, Dong da, Hanoi, Viet Nam
Vet Microbiol 148:168-74. 2011
It is a fact that in Viet Nam, Muscovy ducks are raised in large populations (approximately 8 million), usually kept in small flocks together with mallards and chickens...
- Complete genome sequence of virulent duck enteritis virus (DEV) strain 2085 and comparison with genome sequences of virulent and attenuated DEV strains
Jichun Wang
Institut fur Virologie, Freie Universitat Berlin, Philippstrasse 13, Haus 18, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Virus Res 160:316-25. 2011
..Our comparative analysis of four DEV sequences provides a comprehensive overview of DEV genome structure and identifies ORFs that are changed during serial virus passage...
- Tembusu virus in ducks, china
Zhenzhen Cao
Key Laboratory of Zoonosis of Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, People s Republic of China
Emerg Infect Dis 17:1873-5. 2011
In China in 2010, a disease outbreak in egg-laying ducks was associated with a flavivirus. The virus was isolated and partially sequenced...
- Comparing molecular evolution in two mitochondrial protein coding genes (cytochrome b and ND2) in the dabbling ducks (Tribe: Anatini)
K P Johnson
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, and Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, St Paul, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 10:82-94. 1998
..for the cytochrome b (cyt b) and NADH dehydrogenase sub-unit 2 (ND2) genes using a phylogeny of the dabbling ducks (Tribe: Anatini) and outgroups...
- Homo- and heterosubtypic low pathogenic avian influenza exposure on H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus infection in wood ducks (Aix sponsa)
Taiana P Costa
Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e15987. 2011
..hemagglutinin) low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) viruses on the outcome of a H5N1 HPAI virus infection in wood ducks (Aix sponsa) was evaluated...
- Identification of genes related to white and black plumage formation by RNA-Seq from white and black feather bulbs in ducks
Shijun Li
Key Lab of Agriculture Animal Genetics, Breeding, and Reproduction of Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People s Republic of China
PLoS ONE 7:e36592. 2012
To elucidate the genes involved in the formation of white and black plumage in ducks, RNA from white and black feather bulbs of an F(2) population were analyzed using RNA-Seq...
- Immunoglobulin genetics and antibody responses to influenza in ducks
Katharine E Magor
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Dev Comp Immunol 35:1008-16. 2011
The role of the duck as the natural host and reservoir of influenza and efforts to vaccinate ducks during recent outbreaks of avian influenza has renewed interest in the duck antibody response...
- Immune-related gene expression in response to H11N9 low pathogenic avian influenza virus infection in chicken and Pekin duck peripheral blood mononuclear cells
Sean C Adams
Department of Population Health and Reproduction, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Mol Immunol 46:1744-9. 2009
..Frequently, AIV infections in ducks are asymptomatic and long-lasting in contrast to the clinically apparent and transient infections observed in ..
- H5N1 subtype highly pathogenic avian influenza virus isolated from healthy mallard captured in South Korea
Hye Ryoung Kim
National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service, 175 Anyangro Manangu Anyangsi, Gyeonggido 430 824, South Korea
Vet Microbiol 151:386-9. 2011
..Phylogenetic analysis showed that this virus was classified into clade 2.3.2 and closely related to H5N1 viruses isolated from wild birds in Mongolia, Russia and China in 2009 and 2010...
- An outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in Korea, 2008
Hye Ryoung Kim
National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service, 335 Joongangro Manangu Anyangsi, Gyeonggido 430 824, Republic of Korea
Vet Microbiol 141:362-6. 2010
..3.2 viruses. However, the internal and neuraminidase (NA) genes were closely related to those of the clade 2.3.4 viruses (recent human and bird isolates from Southeast Asia)...
- Circulation of influenza viruses in wild waterfowl wintering in Italy during the 1993-99 period: evidence of virus shedding and seroconversion in wild ducks
M A De Marco
Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica A Ghigi, 9 via Ca Fornacetta, 40064 Ozzano Emilia BO, Italy
Avian Dis 47:861-6. 2003
..We analyzed influenza virus circulation in wild ducks in Italy during six winter seasons (1993-99), using virus isolations and serological analyses...
- Emergence of H5N1 avian influenza viruses with reduced sensitivity to neuraminidase inhibitors and novel reassortants in Lao People's Democratic Republic
David A Boltz
Division of Virology, Department of Infectious Diseases, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
J Gen Virol 91:949-59. 2010
..We analyzed 29 viruses isolated from chickens and ducks and two from fatal human cases in 2007. Prior to 2008, all H5N1 isolates in Lao PDR were from clade 2.3...
- First report of Toxoplasma gondii infection in market-sold adult chickens, ducks and pigeons in northwest China
Wei Cong
State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, People s Republic of China
Parasit Vectors 5:110. 2012
..gondii infection in domestic birds in Lanzhou, northwest China was available. Therefore, this study was performed to determine the seroprevalence of T. gondii infection in domestic birds in Lanzhou, northwest China...
- Reemerging H5N1 influenza viruses in Hong Kong in 2002 are highly pathogenic to ducks
Katharine M Sturm-Ramirez
Division of Virology, Department of Infectious Diseases, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105 2794, USA
J Virol 78:4892-901. 2004
..highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus caused deaths among wild migratory birds and resident waterfowl, including ducks, in two Hong Kong parks...
- NP body domain and PB2 contribute to increased virulence of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses in chickens
Tatsuya Tada
Research Team for Zoonotic Diseases, National Institute of Animal Health, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, 3 1 5 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305 0856, Japan
J Virol 85:1834-46. 2011
..indicate that both NP and PB2 contribute to the high pathogenicity of the H5N1 HPAI viruses in chickens, and valine at position 105 of NP may be one of the determinants for adaptation of avian influenza viruses from ducks to chickens.
- A serological survey of pigs, horses, and ducks in Nepal for evidence of infection with Japanese encephalitis virus
Ganesh R Pant
Central Veterinary Laboratory, Tripureshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1081:124-9. 2006
..antibody to JE virus was conducted in Nepal from September 2003 to August 2004 by collecting 280 sera from pigs, ducks, and horses covering 10 districts of the country...
- The potential distance of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus dispersal by mallard, common teal and Eurasian pochard
Anne Laure Brochet
Centre de Recherche de la Tour du Valat, Le Sambuc, 13200, Arles, France
Ecohealth 6:449-57. 2009
..Recent experimental studies demonstrated that HP H5N1 AIV infection in ducks does not necessarily have significant pathological effects...
- Avian influenza A (H5N1) in 10 patients in Vietnam
Tinh Hien Tran
Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Health Service of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
N Engl J Med 350:1179-88. 2004
..Recent outbreaks of avian influenza A (H5N1) in poultry throughout Asia have had major economic and health repercussions. Human infections with this virus were identified in Vietnam in January 2004...
- Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus infection of mallards with homo- and heterosubtypic immunity induced by low pathogenic avian influenza viruses
Sasan R Fereidouni
Friedrich Loeffler Institut FLI, Insel Riems, Germany
PLoS ONE 4:e6706. 2009
..We conclude that the epidemiology of HPAIV H5N1 in mallards and probably other aquatic wild bird species is massively influenced by interfering immunity induced by prior homo- and heterosubtypic LPAIV infections...
- Influenza-A viruses in ducks in northwestern Minnesota: fine scale spatial and temporal variation in prevalence and subtype diversity
Benjamin R Wilcox
Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e24010. 2011
..AIV was detected in 222 (9.1%) of 2,441 ducks in 2007 and in 438 (17.9%) of 2,452 ducks in 2008. Prevalence of AIV peaked in late summer...
- Early alterations of the receptor-binding properties of H1, H2, and H3 avian influenza virus hemagglutinins after their introduction into mammals
M Matrosovich
Department of Virology and Molecular Biology, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, Russia
J Virol 74:8502-12. 2000
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- Pathogenesis of highly pathogenic avian influenza A/turkey/Turkey/1/2005 H5N1 in Pekin ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) infected experimentally
Brandon Z Londt
Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Addlestone, Surrey, UK
Avian Pathol 37:619-27. 2008
..Recent isolates of this virus have been reported to cause disease and death in commercial ducks, which has not been seen with other HPAI viruses...
- Characterization of H9 subtype influenza viruses from the ducks of southern China: a candidate for the next influenza pandemic in humans?
K S Li
Joint Influenza Research Centre SUMC and HKU, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong 515031, P R China
J Virol 77:6988-94. 2003
..that H9N2 influenza viruses established in terrestrial poultry in southern China are transmitted back to domestic ducks, in which the viruses generate multiple reassortants...
- Genome wide SNP discovery, analysis and evaluation in mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
Robert H S Kraus
Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, PO Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
BMC Genomics 12:150. 2011
..For large scale identification of SNPs we performed Illumina sequencing of wild mallard DNA and compared our data with ongoing genome and EST sequencing of domesticated conspecifics. This is the first study of its kind for waterfowl...
- An infectious disease of ducks caused by a newly emerged Tembusu virus strain in mainland China
Pixi Yan
Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Shanghai, PR China
Virology 417:1-8. 2011
During investigations into an outbreak of egg production decline, retarded growth, and even death among ducks in Southeast China, a novel Tembusu virus strain named Tembusu virus Fengxian 2010 (FX2010) was isolated...
- Persistence of avian influenza viruses in lake sediment, duck feces, and duck meat
Jawad Nazir
Institute of Environmental and Animal Hygiene, University of Hohenheim, Garbenstr 30, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
Appl Environ Microbiol 77:4981-5. 2011
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- Rapid death of duck cells infected with influenza: a potential mechanism for host resistance to H5N1
Suresh V Kuchipudi
Institute of Comparative Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Immunol Cell Biol 90:116-23. 2012
..Such rapid cell death was not observed in duck cells infected with a contemporary Eurasian lineage H5N1 fatal to ducks. The induction of rapid death in duck cells may be part of a mechanism of host resistance to influenza A, with the ..
- The PA protein directly contributes to the virulence of H5N1 avian influenza viruses in domestic ducks
Jiasheng Song
Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, CAAS, Harbin 150001, People s Republic of China
J Virol 85:2180-8. 2011
..nature, H5N1 avian influenza viruses (AIVs) have acquired the ability to kill their natural hosts, wild birds and ducks. The genetic determinants for this increased virulence are largely unknown...
- The survey of H5N1 flu virus in wild birds in 14 Provinces of China from 2004 to 2007
Zheng Kou
State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
PLoS ONE 4:e6926. 2009
..The highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza emerged in the year 1996 in Asia, and has spread to Europe and Africa recently. At present, effective monitoring and data analysis of H5N1 are not sufficient in Chinese mainland...
- Nuclear loci and coalescent methods support ancient hybridization as cause of mitochondrial paraphyly between gadwall and falcated duck (Anas spp.)
Jeffrey L Peters
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21250, USA
Evolution 61:1992-2006. 2007
..that could explain mitochondrial paraphyly of Holarctic gadwalls (Anas strepera) with respect to Asian falcated ducks (A. falcata)...
- Expressing gK gene of duck enteritis virus guided by bioinformatics and its applied prospect in diagnosis
Shunchuan Zhang
Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, 46 Xinkang Road, Ya an, Sichuan 625014, China
Virol J 7:168. 2010
..The gK is one of the major envelope glycoproteins of DEV. However, little information correlated with gK is known, such as antigenic and functional characterization...
- The pathogenesis of low pathogenicity H7 avian influenza viruses in chickens, ducks and turkeys
Erica Spackman
Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, USDA ARS, 934 College Station Rd, Athens, GA, 30605, USA
Virol J 7:331. 2010
..In this study twelve H7 LPAI virus isolates from North America were each evaluated for their comparative pathogenesis in chickens, ducks, and turkeys.
- New avian influenza A virus subtype combination H5N7 identified in Danish mallard ducks
K Bragstad
Department of Virology, Statens Serum Institut, 5 Artillerivej, DK 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
Virus Res 109:181-90. 2005
..Ten persons with direct or indirect contact with the Danish mallard ducks showed signs of influenza-like illness 2-3 days following the killing of the ducks, but no evidence of influence ..
- Large-scale survey of Cryptosporidium spp. in chickens and Pekin ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) in Henan, China: prevalence and molecular characterization
Rongjun Wang
The College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, P R China
Avian Pathol 39:447-51. 2010
Few data are available on the molecular characterization of Cryptosporidium spp. in chickens and ducks in China...
- Risk factors and clusters of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 outbreaks in Bangladesh
Leo Loth
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Dhaka 1215, Bangladesh
Prev Vet Med 96:104-13. 2010
..Concentrating response efforts may help to combat HPAI more effectively, reducing the environmental viral load and so reducing the number of disease incidents...
- Viral replication, persistence in water and genetic characterization of two influenza A viruses isolated from surface lake water
Camille Lebarbenchon
Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e26566. 2011
..Our study supports the role for water-borne transmission for IA viruses but also highlights that additional field and experimental studies are required to support inter-annual persistence in aquatic habitats...
- Establishment and lineage replacement of H6 influenza viruses in domestic ducks in southern China
Kai Huang
International Institute of Infection and Immunity, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China
J Virol 86:6075-83. 2012
Domestic ducks in southern China act as an important reservoir for influenza viruses and have also facilitated the establishment of multiple H6 influenza virus lineages...
- Rapid detection of newly isolated Tembusu-related Flavivirus by reverse-transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay
Youling Wang
College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, PR China
Virol J 8:553. 2011
..This disease affected not only laying ducks but also meat ducks, causing huge economic losses for the poultry industry...
- Analysis of the complete genome of Tembusu virus, a flavivirus isolated from ducks in China
Y Tang
Zoology Institute, Agricultural University of Shan Dong province, Shan Dong Province, China
Transbound Emerg Dis 59:336-43. 2012
..infection in 2010 in China, with a severe drop in egg production, a flavivirus was isolated from the affected ducks. It was characterized as a Tembusu virus (TMUV)...
- Replication, neurotropism, and pathogenicity of avian paramyxovirus serotypes 1-9 in chickens and ducks
Shin Hee Kim
Virginia Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e34927. 2012
..Here, this was evaluated for prototypes strains of APMV serotypes 2-9 in cell culture and in chickens and ducks. In cell culture, only APMV-1, -3 and -5 induced syncytium formation...
- Genomic and antigenic characterization of the newly emerging Chinese duck egg-drop syndrome flavivirus: genomic comparison with Tembusu and Sitiawan viruses
Peipei Liu
CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
J Gen Virol 93:2158-70. 2012
..The infection occurs in laying ducks characterized by a severe drop in egg production with a fatality rate of 5-15 %...
- Identification and complete genome sequencing of paramyxoviruses in mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) using random access amplification and next generation sequencing technologies
Toon Rosseel
Operational Directorate of Virology, Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Center, Ukkel, Belgium
Virol J 8:463. 2011
..AIV and APMV1 were excluded using hemagglutination inhibition (HI) testing and specific real-time RT-PCR tests...
- An H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus that invaded Japan through waterfowl migration
Masahiro Kajihara
Department of Global Epidemiology, Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo 001 0020, Japan
Jpn J Vet Res 59:89-100. 2011
In 2010, an H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) was isolated from feces of apparently healthy ducks migrating southward in Hokkaido, the northernmost prefecture of Japan...
- Rapid detection of Tembusu virus by reverse-transcription, loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP)
Y Tang
Zoology Institute, Agricultural University of Shan Dong province, Shan Dong Province, China
Transbound Emerg Dis 59:208-13. 2012
..In conclusion, RT-LAMP with SYBR Green I dye was shown to be a sensitive, simple assay for the rapid diagnosis of TMUV infection in ducks.
- Replication of 2 subtypes of low-pathogenicity avian influenza virus of duck and gull origins in experimentally infected Mallard ducks
P Y Daoust
Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, 550 University Avenue, Charlottetown, PE C1A 4P3, Canada
Vet Pathol 50:548-59. 2013
..the distribution and pathogenicity of 2 such subtypes of markedly different origins in Mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos): H2N3 isolated from a Mallard duck and H13N6 isolated from a Ring-billed Gull (Larus ..
- A molecular and antigenic survey of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus isolates from smallholder duck farms in Central Java, Indonesia during 2007-2008
Hendra Wibawa
CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Virol J 8:425. 2011
..there is little information on the diversity of H5N1 viruses circulating in backyard farms, where chickens and ducks often intermingle...
- OmpA is a virulence factor of Riemerella anatipestifer
Qinghai Hu
Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences CAAS, 518 Ziyue Road, Shanghai 200241, PR China
Vet Microbiol 150:278-83. 2011
Riemerella anatipestifer infection is probably the most economically important disease of farm ducks worldwide. The pathogen R...
- Effect of different routes of inoculation on infectivity and viral shedding of LPAI viruses in mallards
M Franca
Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, 501 DW Brooks Drive, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Avian Dis 56:981-5. 2012
..In conclusion, mallards can be infected with LPAIV by various routes of inoculation, and this corroborates their high susceptibility to infection by these viruses...
- Complex reassortment of multiple subtypes of avian influenza viruses in domestic ducks at the Dongting Lake Region of China
Guohua Deng
State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China
J Virol 87:9452-62. 2013
..into the ecology of avian influenza viruses (AIV), we conducted active influenza virus surveillance in domestic ducks on farms located on the flyway of migratory birds in the Dongting Lake region of Hunan Province, China, from ..
- Molecular evolution of the vertebrate TLR1 gene family--a complex history of gene duplication, gene conversion, positive selection and co-evolution
Yinhua Huang
Division of Genetics and Genomics, The Roslin Institute and R D SVS, University of Edinburgh, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9PS, UK
BMC Evol Biol 11:149. 2011
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- Expression of duck CCL19 and CCL21 and CCR7 receptor in lymphoid and influenza-infected tissues
Ximena Fleming-Canepa
Department of Biological Sciences, CW405 Biological Sciences Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E9
Mol Immunol 48:1950-7. 2011
b>Ducks are the natural host and reservoir of influenza viruses. We are interested in their immune responses to these viruses, to understand host-pathogen interactions and to develop effective agricultural vaccines...
- Detection and characterisation of CTX-M and CMY-2 beta-lactamases among Escherichia coli isolates from farm animals in Guangdong Province of China
Jian Hua Liu
College of Veterinary Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Veterinary Pharmaceutics Development and Safety Evaluation, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Int J Antimicrob Agents 29:576-81. 2007
..Polymerase chain reaction and sequencing analysis showed that 14 isolates (2.4%) from chickens, ducks, pigs and partridges were positive for the bla(CTX-M) gene (10 for bla(CTX-M-14) and 4 for bla(CTX-M-27))...
- Development of multiplex PCR assay for rapid detection of Riemerella anatipestifer, Escherichia coli, and Salmonella enterica simultaneously from ducks
Qinghai Hu
Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences CAAS, 518 Ziyue Road, Shanghai 200241, PR China
J Microbiol Methods 87:64-9. 2011
..coli, and Salmonella enterica, are leading causes of bacterial fibrinous pericarditis and perihepatitis in ducks in China and worldwide...
- Prevalence of qnr, aac(6')-Ib-cr, qepA, and oqxAB in Escherichia coli isolates from humans, animals, and the environment
Xiang Chen
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Jiangsu, China
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 56:3423-7. 2012
..The prevalence of oqxAB in porcine isolates (51.0%) was significantly higher than that in other isolates. This is the first report of oqxAB-positive isolates from ducks and geese and as early as 1994 from chickens.
- Complete genomic sequence of Chinese virulent duck enteritis virus
Ying Wu
Institute of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, Chengdu City, Sichuan, People s Republic of China
J Virol 86:5965. 2012
..In addition, knowledge of this virus will extend our general knowledge of DEV and will be useful for further studies of the mechanisms of virus replication and pathogenesis...
- Genetic characterization of an H5N1 avian influenza virus with neurovirulence in ducks
Wei Zou
Unit of Animal Infectious Disease, State Key Laboratory of Agriculture Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, People s Republic of China
Virus Genes 38:263-8. 2009
..virus, A/duck/Hubei/hangmei01/2006, which could lead to acute disease including neurovirulence and mortality in ducks, was isolated in brains of domestic ducks in spring of 2006...
- Effects of air and water temperatures on resting metabolism of auklets and other diving birds
Samantha E Richman
Department of Zoology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, USA
Physiol Biochem Zool 84:316-32. 2011
..RMR was higher on water than in air for alcids, cormorants, and small penguins but not for diving ducks, which appear exceptionally resistant to heat loss in water...
- Avian influenza in wild birds, central coast of Peru
Bruno M Ghersi
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru
Emerg Infect Dis 15:935-8. 2009
..The 9 isolates recovered represented 4 low-pathogenicity avian influenza strains: subtypes H3N8, H4N5, H10N9, and H13N2...
- Toxoplasma gondii infection in domestic ducks, free-range and caged chickens in southern China
C Yan
Department of Parasitology, College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, 483 Wushan Street, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province 510642, PR China
Vet Parasitol 165:337-40. 2009
..gondii in chickens and ducks in People's Republic of China. In the present study, antibodies to T...
- Replication of low pathogenic avian influenza virus in naturally infected Mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) causes no morphologic lesions
Pierre Yves Daoust
Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, 550 University Avenue, Charlottetown, PE C1A 4P3, Canada
J Wildl Dis 47:401-9. 2011
..The lack of lesions associated with this infection suggests that there is a strong selection by LPAI virus to cause minimal virulence in this maintenance host species...
- Pathogenicity of a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, A/chicken/Yamaguchi/7/04 (H5N1) in different species of birds and mammals
N Isoda
Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Disease Control, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Arch Virol 151:1267-79. 2006
..The virus was highly pathogenic to all the birds tested. Mice were susceptible to infection with a low mortality rate and miniature pigs were resistant to infection with the virus...
- Establishment of an H6N2 influenza virus lineage in domestic ducks in southern China
K Huang
State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 21 Sassoon Road, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong SAR, China
J Virol 84:6978-86. 2010
..However, the role of domestic ducks as an interface between the natural gene pool and terrestrial poultry in the influenza virus ecosystem has not ..
- Pathotypical characterization and molecular epidemiology of Newcastle disease virus isolates from different hosts in China from 1996 to 2005
Zhuo ming Qin
Institute of Poultry Science, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan 250100, China
J Clin Microbiol 46:601-11. 2008
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- Transcription phase, protein characteristics of DEV UL45 and prokaryotic expression, antibody preparation of the UL45 des-transmembrane domain
Ai Mei Shen
Avian Diseases Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya an 625014, Sichuan, China
Virol J 7:232. 2010
..Some UL45 gene function of Herpesvirus was reported. While there was no any report of the duck enteritis virus (DEV) UL45 protein as yet...
- Molecular analysis of duck enteritis virus US3, US4, and US5 gene
Yan Zhao
Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, 150030, China
Virus Genes 38:289-94. 2009
..Phylogenetic analysis of the three putative proteins revealed that they had a close evolutionary relationship with the subfamily of Alphaherpesvirinae...
- Identification and characterization of duck plague virus glycoprotein C gene and gene product
Bei Lian
Avian Diseases Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya an, Sichuan 625014, China
Virol J 7:349. 2010
..Viral envelope proteins have been proposed to play significant roles in the process of viral infection...
- Dynamics of specific antibody responses induced in mallards after infection by or immunization with low pathogenicity avian influenza viruses
Sasan R Fereidouni
Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich Loeffler Institut, Südufer 10, 17493 Greifswald, Insel Riems, Germany
Avian Dis 54:79-85. 2010
..Four groups of mallard ducks were used: 1) naturally infected birds, 2) birds that were experimentally infected with LPAIV, 3) birds that were ..
- Experimental infection of chickens, ducks and quails with the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus
Ok Mi Jeong
National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service, Anyang 430 824, Korea
J Vet Sci 10:53-60. 2009
..isolates differ phylogenetically from the 2003/2004 isolates, we assessed the clinical responses of chickens, ducks and quails to intranasal inoculation of the 2006/2007 index case virus, A/chicken/Korea/IS/06...
- Surveillance of influenza A virus in migratory waterfowl in northern Europe
Anders Wallensten
Smedby Health Center, Kalmar, Sweden
Emerg Infect Dis 13:404-11. 2007
..0%, highest 9.5%). This finding raises the possibility that ducks are capable of perpetuating influenza A virus of different subtypes and subtype combinations throughout the year ..
- Pekin and Muscovy ducks respond differently to vaccination with a H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) commercial inactivated vaccine
Caran Cagle
Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, Exotic and Emerging Avian Viral Diseases Unit, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, 934 College Station Road, Athens, GA 30605, USA
Vaccine 29:6549-57. 2011
Domestic ducks are key intermediates in the transmission of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses, and therefore are included in vaccination programs to control H5N1 HPAI...
- Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus induces extracellular Ca2+ influx, leading to apoptosis in avian cells
Mayo Ueda
International Research Center for Infectious Diseases and Department of Virology, Research Institute forMicrobial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan
J Virol 84:3068-78. 2010
..These findings may be useful for understanding the pathogenesis of H5N1-AIV in avian species as well as the impact of Ca(2+) homeostasis on influenza A virus infection...
- Molecular shaping of the beak
Ping Wu
Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
Science 305:1465-6. 2004
..There is only one proliferative zone in the frontonasal mass of chickens, but two in ducks. These growth zones are associated with bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP4) activity...
- Molecular basis of replication of duck H5N1 influenza viruses in a mammalian mouse model
Zejun Li
Animal Influenza Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 427 Maduan Street, Harbin 150001, People s Republic of China
J Virol 79:12058-64. 2005
We recently analyzed a series of H5N1 viruses isolated from healthy ducks in southern China since 1999 and found that these viruses had progressively acquired the ability to replicate and cause disease in mice...
- Cell lines from the Egyptian fruit bat are permissive for modified vaccinia Ankara
Ingo Jordan
ProBioGen AG, Berlin, Germany
Virus Res 145:54-62. 2009
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- Characterization of H5N2 influenza viruses isolated in South Korea and their influence on the emergence of a novel H9N2 influenza virus
Hye Ryoung Kim
Animal Disease Diagnosis Center, National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service, 335 Joongangro, Manangu, Anyangsi, Gyeonggido 430 824, Republic of Korea
J Gen Virol 91:1978-83. 2010
..Genetic analysis of the H5N2 viruses isolated from wild birds and domestic ducks demonstrated that they were related to the recently isolated southern Chinese LPAI H5 viruses and various ..
- The pH of activation of the hemagglutinin protein regulates H5N1 influenza virus pathogenicity and transmissibility in ducks
Mark L Reed
Department of Infectious Diseases, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105 3678, USA
J Virol 84:1527-35. 2010
..The pH of activation of the H5 HA protein plays a key role in the propagation of H5N1 influenza viruses in ducks and may be a novel molecular factor in the ecology of influenza viruses...
- Three amino acid changes in PB1-F2 of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus affect pathogenicity in mallard ducks
Henju Marjuki
Division of Virology, Department of Infectious Diseases, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105 3678, USA
Arch Virol 155:925-34. 2010
..In our previous study, the A/Vietnam/1203/04 (H5N1) wild-type virus (wtVN1203) was more lethal to mallard ducks than a reverse genetics (rg)-derived VN1203...
- Shedding light on avian influenza H4N6 infection in mallards: modes of transmission and implications for surveillance
Kaci K VanDalen
National Wildlife Research Center, Wildlife Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
PLoS ONE 5:e12851. 2010
..Because AIV circulating in wild birds pose an indirect threat to agriculture and human health, understanding the ecology of AIV and developing risk assessments and surveillance systems for prevention of disease is critical...
- Role of domestic ducks in the propagation and biological evolution of highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza viruses in Asia
D J Hulse-Post
Division of Virology, Department of Infectious Diseases, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:10682-7. 2005
Wild waterfowl, including ducks, are natural hosts of influenza A viruses. These viruses rarely caused disease in ducks until 2002, when some H5N1 strains became highly pathogenic...
- The effect of age on avian influenza viral shedding in mallards (Anas platyrhynchos)
T P Costa
Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, 501 DW Brooks Drive, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Avian Dis 54:581-5. 2010
..This information may help us better understand the natural history of these viruses, interpret field and experimental data, and plan future experimental trials...
- Expression and intracellular localization of duck enteritis virus pUL38 protein
Jun Xiang
Avian Diseases Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Yaan, Sichuan, China
Virol J 7:162. 2010
..Furthermore, pUL38 was found in purified virus. These results provide the first evidence of the kinetics of expression and intracellular localization of DEV pUL38...
- Cloning, expression, purification and characterization of UL24 partial protein of duck enteritis virus
Renyong Jia
Avian Disease Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya an 625014, China
Intervirology 52:326-34. 2009
..On the basis of subcellular location, UL24 appeared to be predominantly nuclear membrane-associated, especially at later times in infection, and provided a good tool to further study the biofunctions of UL24 protein...
- Polyclonal antibody against the DPV UL46M protein can be a diagnostic candidate
Liting Lu
Avian Diseases Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, YA, AN, Sichuan, China
Virol J 7:83. 2010
..Subsequently, we established Dot-ELISA using the polyclonal antibody and applied it to DPV detection...
