Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines (Mar 2020)

First sequence of influenza D virus identified in poultry farm bioaerosols in Sarawak, Malaysia

  • Emily S. Bailey,
  • Jane K. Fieldhouse,
  • Natalie A. Alarja,
  • David D. Chen,
  • Maria E. Kovalik,
  • Juliana N. Zemke,
  • Jessica Y. Choi,
  • Laura K. Borkenhagen,
  • Teck-Hock Toh,
  • Jeffrey Soon Yit Lee,
  • Kuek-Sen Chong,
  • Gregory C. Gray

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40794-020-0105-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 1
pp. 1 – 4

Abstract

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Abstract In 2018, our team collected aerosols samples from five poultry farms in Malaysia. Influenza D virus was detected in 14% of samples. One sample had an 86.3% identity score similar to NCBI accession number MH785020.1. This is the first molecular sequence of influenza D virus detected in Southeast Asia from a bioaerosol sample. Our findings indicate that further study of role of IDV in poultry is necessary.

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