Nature Communications (Nov 2019)
Disentangling the role of Africa in the global spread of H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza
- Alice Fusaro,
- Bianca Zecchin,
- Bram Vrancken,
- Celia Abolnik,
- Rose Ademun,
- Abdou Alassane,
- Abdelsatar Arafa,
- Joseph Adongo Awuni,
- Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann,
- M.’ Bétiégué Coulibaly,
- Nicolas Gaidet,
- Emilie Go-Maro,
- Tony Joannis,
- Simon Dickmu Jumbo,
- Germaine Minoungou,
- Clement Meseko,
- Maman Moutari Souley,
- Deo Birungi Ndumu,
- Ismaila Shittu,
- Augustin Twabela,
- Abel Wade,
- Lidewij Wiersma,
- Yao P. Akpeli,
- Gianpiero Zamperin,
- Adelaide Milani,
- Philippe Lemey,
- Isabella Monne
Affiliations
- Alice Fusaro
- Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie
- Bianca Zecchin
- Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie
- Bram Vrancken
- KU Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute
- Celia Abolnik
- Department of Production Animal Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria
- Rose Ademun
- National Animal Disease Diagnostics and Epidemiology Center (NADDEC)
- Abdou Alassane
- Laboratoire Central de l’Elevage (LABOCEL)
- Abdelsatar Arafa
- National Laboratory for Veterinary Quality Control on Poultry Production (NLQP), Animal Health Research Institute
- Joseph Adongo Awuni
- Accra Veterinary Laboratory
- Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann
- Laboratoire Central de Pathologie Animale
- M.’ Bétiégué Coulibaly
- Laboratoire National D’Appui au Développement Agricole
- Nicolas Gaidet
- CIRAD, UPR GREEN
- Emilie Go-Maro
- Laboratoire Central Vétérinaire de Lomé
- Tony Joannis
- National Veterinary Research Institute
- Simon Dickmu Jumbo
- Laboratoire National Vétérinaire (LANAVET)
- Germaine Minoungou
- Laboratoire National d’Elevage de Ouagadougou
- Clement Meseko
- National Veterinary Research Institute
- Maman Moutari Souley
- Laboratoire Central de l’Elevage (LABOCEL)
- Deo Birungi Ndumu
- National Animal Disease Diagnostics and Epidemiology Center (NADDEC)
- Ismaila Shittu
- National Veterinary Research Institute
- Augustin Twabela
- Veterinary Laboratory of Kinshasa
- Abel Wade
- Laboratoire National Vétérinaire (LANAVET)
- Lidewij Wiersma
- Laboratory Unit of the Emergency Prevention System (EMPRES), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN-FAO)
- Yao P. Akpeli
- Laboratoire Central Vétérinaire de Lomé
- Gianpiero Zamperin
- Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie
- Adelaide Milani
- Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie
- Philippe Lemey
- KU Leuven, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute
- Isabella Monne
- Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13287-y
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 13
Abstract
The role of Africa in the global spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is not well understood. Here, using evolutionary analyses, the authors show that Africa mainly acts as ecological sink for HPAI H5, and reveal varying paths of HPAI incursions either through domestic or wild birds.
