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First sequence of influenza D virus identified in poultry farm bioaerosols in Sarawak, Malaysia

Bailey ES 1 , Fieldhouse JK 1 , Alarja NA 1 , Chen DD 2 , Kovalik ME 2 , Zemke JN 2 Show all authors , Choi JY 2 , Borkenhagen LK 1 , Toh TH 3 , Lee JSY 3 , Chong KS 4 , Gray GC 1

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  • 1 1Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, DUMC Box 102359, Durham, NC 27710 USA
  • 2 2Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina USA
  • 3 4Clinical Research Center, Sibu Hospital, Sibu, Sarawak Malaysia
  • 4 5Faculty of Medicine, SEGi University, Kota Damansara, Selangor Malaysia
Trop Dis Travel Med Vaccines, 2020;6:5.
PMID: 32190346 DOI: 10.1186/s40794-020-0105-9

Abstract

In 2018, our team collected aerosols samples from five poultry farms in Malaysia. Influenza D virus was detected in 14% of samples. One sample had an 86.3% identity score similar to NCBI accession number MH785020.1. This is the first molecular sequence of influenza D virus detected in Southeast Asia from a bioaerosol sample. Our findings indicate that further study of role of IDV in poultry is necessary.

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