Emerging Infectious Diseases (Sep 2013)

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H7N3) Virus in Poultry Workers, Mexico, 2012

  • Irma Lopez-Martinez,
  • Amanda Balish,
  • Gisela Barrera-Badillo,
  • Joyce Jones,
  • Tatiana E. Nuñez-García,
  • Yunho Jang,
  • Rodrigo Aparicio-Antonio,
  • Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner,
  • Jessica A. Belser,
  • José E. Ramirez-Gonzalez,
  • Janice C. Pedersen,
  • Joanna Ortiz-Alcantara,
  • Elizabeth Gonzalez-Duran,
  • Bo Shu,
  • Shannon L. Emery,
  • Mee K. Poh,
  • Gustavo Reyes-Teran,
  • Joel A. Vazquez-Perez,
  • Santiago Avila-Rios,
  • Timothy Uyeki,
  • Stephen Lindstrom,
  • Julie Villanueva,
  • Jerome Tokars,
  • Cuitláhuac Ruiz-Matus,
  • Jesus F. Gonzalez-Roldan,
  • Beverly Schmitt,
  • Alexander Klimov,
  • Nancy Cox,
  • Pablo Kuri-Morales,
  • C. Todd Davis,
  • José Alberto Diaz-Quiñonez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1909.130087
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 9
pp. 1531 – 1534

Abstract

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We identified 2 poultry workers with conjunctivitis caused by highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H7N3) viruses in Jalisco, Mexico. Genomic and antigenic analyses of 1 isolate indicated relatedness to poultry and wild bird subtype H7N3 viruses from North America. This isolate had a multibasic cleavage site that might have been derived from recombination with host rRNA.

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