Avian influenza infections in non-migratant land birds in Andean Peru
Journal article
Authors | Williams, Richard, Segovia-Hinostroza, Karen, Ghersi, Bruno M., Gonzaga, Victor, Peterson, A. Townsend and Montgomery, Joel M. |
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Abstract | As part of ongoing surveillance for avian influenza viruses (AIV) in Peruvian birds, in June 2008, we sampled 600 land birds of 177 species, using real-time reverse-transcription PCR. We addressed the assumption that AIV prevalence is low or nil among land birds, a hypothesis that was not supported by the results—rather, we found AIV infections at relatively high prevalences in birds of the orders Apodiformes (hummingbirds) and Passeriformes (songbirds). Surveillance programs for monitoring spread and identification of AIV should thus not focus solely on water birds. |
Keywords | Avian influenza viruses; ecology; hummingbirds; land birds; Peru |
Year | 2012 |
Journal | Journal of Wildlife Diseases |
Journal citation | 48 (4), pp. 910-917 |
Publisher | Wildlife Disease Association |
ISSN | 0090-3558 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.7589/2011-02-052 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/623618 |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ | |
hdl:10545/623618 | |
Publication dates | 13 Jun 2012 |
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Deposited | 19 Mar 2019, 13:32 |
Accepted | 13 Jun 2012 |
Rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States |
Contributors | Biodiversity Institute, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd., University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA, Departamento de Zoologı´a y Antropologıa Fısica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, C/Jose Antonio Novais, 2 Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria de Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Av. Circunvalacion Cdra. 28 San Borja, Lima, Peru and United States Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Unit 6, Av. Venezuela Cdra. 36, Callao 2, Lima, Peru |
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https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/954x7/avian-influenza-infections-in-non-migratant-land-birds-in-andean-peru
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