Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul 2022)

Bagaza Virus in Wild Birds, Portugal, 2021

  • João Queirós,
  • Sílvia C. Barros,
  • Alberto Sánchez-Cano,
  • Ana Margarida Henriques,
  • Teresa Fagulha,
  • Fábio Abade dos Santos,
  • Margarida D. Duarte,
  • Catarina Fontoura-Gonçalves,
  • David Gonçalves,
  • Marisa Rodrigues,
  • Teresa Cardona Cabrera,
  • Isabel G. Fernández de Mera,
  • Christian Gortazar,
  • Ursula Höfle,
  • Paulo Célio Alves

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2807.212408
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 7
pp. 1504 – 1506

Abstract

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Bagaza virus emerged in Spain in 2010 and was not reported in other countries in Europe until 2021, when the virus was detected by molecular methods in a corn bunting and several red-legged partridges in Portugal. Sequencing revealed high similarity between the 2021 strains from Portugal and the 2010 strains from Spain.

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