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Editor, Senior Moderator
Arch Virol. 2015 Dec 21. [Epub ahead of print]
[h=1]Susceptibility of rock doves to low-pathogenic avian influenza A viruses.[/h] Shriner SA[SUP]1[/SUP], Root JJ[SUP]2[/SUP], Mooers NL[SUP]2[/SUP], Ellis JW[SUP]2[/SUP], Stopak SR[SUP]3[/SUP], Sullivan HJ[SUP]2[/SUP], VanDalen KK[SUP]2[/SUP], Franklin AB[SUP]2[/SUP].
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[h=3]Abstract[/h] Following a 2008 outbreak of North American low-pathogenic H5N8 influenza A virus at an upland gamebird farm, we sero-sampled rock doves (pigeons, Columba livia) at the outbreak site and conducted experimental inoculations of wild-caught pigeons using the H5N8 virus and another low-pathogenic virus (H4N6). While 13 % of pigeons at the outbreak site were seropositive, none were positive for exposure to H5, and one was positive for N8. Challenged pigeons exhibited low susceptibility and limited viral RNA excretion for both viruses tested, but at least one individual had RNA loads indicative of the potential for viral transmission to other birds.
PMID: 26687583 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
[h=1]Susceptibility of rock doves to low-pathogenic avian influenza A viruses.[/h] Shriner SA[SUP]1[/SUP], Root JJ[SUP]2[/SUP], Mooers NL[SUP]2[/SUP], Ellis JW[SUP]2[/SUP], Stopak SR[SUP]3[/SUP], Sullivan HJ[SUP]2[/SUP], VanDalen KK[SUP]2[/SUP], Franklin AB[SUP]2[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h]
[h=3]Abstract[/h] Following a 2008 outbreak of North American low-pathogenic H5N8 influenza A virus at an upland gamebird farm, we sero-sampled rock doves (pigeons, Columba livia) at the outbreak site and conducted experimental inoculations of wild-caught pigeons using the H5N8 virus and another low-pathogenic virus (H4N6). While 13 % of pigeons at the outbreak site were seropositive, none were positive for exposure to H5, and one was positive for N8. Challenged pigeons exhibited low susceptibility and limited viral RNA excretion for both viruses tested, but at least one individual had RNA loads indicative of the potential for viral transmission to other birds.
PMID: 26687583 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]