Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2018)

Influenza C Virus in Cattle with Respiratory Disease, United States, 2016–2018

  • Hewei Zhang,
  • Elizabeth Porter,
  • Molly Lohman,
  • Nanyan Lu,
  • Lalitha Peddireddi,
  • Gregg Hanzlicek,
  • Douglas Marthaler,
  • Xuming Liu,
  • Jianfa Bai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2410.180589
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 10
pp. 1926 – 1929

Abstract

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We identified influenza C virus (ICV) in samples from US cattle with bovine respiratory disease through real-time PCR testing and sequencing. Bovine ICV isolates had high nucleotide identities (≈98%) with each other and were closely related to human ICV strains (≈95%). Further research is needed to determine bovine ICV’s zoonotic potential.

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