Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2011)

Tembusu Virus in Ducks, China

  • Zhenzhen Cao,
  • Cun Zhang,
  • Yuehuan Liu,
  • Weicheng Ye,
  • Jingwen Han,
  • Guoming Ma,
  • Dongdong Zhang,
  • Feng Xu,
  • Xuhui Gao,
  • Yi Tang,
  • Shaohua Shi,
  • Chunhe Wan,
  • Chen Zhang,
  • Bin He,
  • Mengjie Yang,
  • Xinhao Lu,
  • Yu Huang,
  • Youxiang Diao,
  • Xuejun Ma,
  • Dabing Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1710.101890
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 10
pp. 1873 – 1875

Abstract

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In China in 2010, a disease outbreak in egg-laying ducks was associated with a flavivirus. The virus was isolated and partially sequenced. The isolate exhibited 87%–91% identity with strains of Tembusu virus, a mosquito-borne flavivirus of the Ntaya virus group. These findings demonstrate emergence of Tembusu virus in ducks.

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