Journal article
The recent establishment of North American H10 lineage influenza viruses in Australian wild waterfowl and the evolution of Australian avian influenza viruses
D Vijaykrishna, YM Deng, YCF Su, M Fourment, P Iannello, GG Arzey, PM Hansbro, K Edla Arzey, PD Kirkland, S Warner, K O'Riley, IG Barr, GJD Smith, AC Hurt
Journal of Virology | AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY | Published : 2013
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.03437-12
Abstract
Influenza A H10N7 virus with a hemagglutinin gene of North American origin was detected in Australian chickens and poultry abattoir workers in New South Wales, Australia, in 2010 and in chickens in Queensland, Australia, on a mixed chicken and domestic duck farm in 2012. We investigated their genomic origins by sequencing full and partial genomes of H10 viruses isolated from wild aquatic birds and poultry in Australia and analyzed them with all available avian influenza virus sequences from Oceania and representative viruses from North America and Eurasia. Our analysis showed that the H10N7 viruses isolated from poultry were similar to those that have been circulating since 2009 in Australia..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The laboratories in the Australian states of Victoria and New South Wales are supported by their state governments, and the collection of wild aquatic bird samples in New South Wales is supported by the University of Newcastle. The Melbourne WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza is supported by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. Wild bird surveillance in New South Wales and Victoria is funded by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. This study was also supported by Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund grant MOE2011-T2-2-049 (to D.V.); a career development award under National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases contract HHSN266200700005C (to G.J.D.S.); and the Duke-NUS Signature Research Program, funded by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, and the Ministry of Health, Singapore (to D.V., Y.C.F.S., M.F. and G.J.D.S.).