Isolation and Identification of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus Subtype H5N1 from Emus from the Ein Gedi Oasis by the Dead Sea
| Autor: | Ekaterina Lapin, Michel Bellaiche, Israel Raibstein, Irit Davidson, Ezra Rosenbluth, Inbar Amnon, Irina Shkoda, Shimon Perk, Sagit Nagar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Dead sea
Molecular Sequence Data Nucleotide sequencing Biology medicine.disease_cause H5N1 genetic structure Virus Food Animals medicine Animals Israel Gene Phylogeny Avian influenza virus Dromaiidae Influenza A Virus H5N1 Subtype General Immunology and Microbiology Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction virus diseases Building and Construction Virology Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Hemagglutinins Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus Influenza in Birds Female Animal Science and Zoology |
| Zdroj: | Avian Diseases. 55:499-502 |
| ISSN: | 1938-4351 0005-2086 |
| Popis: | SUMMARY. An avian influenza virus (AIV), A/Emu/Israel/552/2010/ (H5N1), was isolated from a dead emu that was found in the Ein Gedi oasis near the Dead Sea. The virus molecular characterization was performed by reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and real-time RT-PCR using AIV subtype-specific primers. The virus was of high pathogenicity, according to its intravenous pathogenicity index of 2.85 and the nucleotide sequencing at the cleavage site of the hemagglutinin gene, GERRRKKR, which is typical for highly pathogenic chicken influenza A viruses. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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