Tembusu Virus in Ducks, China

Zhenzhen Cao, Cun Zhang(China Agricultural University), Yuehuan Liu(Shandong Agricultural University), Weicheng Ye(Beijing University of Agriculture), Jingwen Han(Beijing University of Agriculture), Guoming Ma(Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences), Dongdong Zhang(Poultry Research Institute), Feng Xu(Center for Disease Control), Xu-Hui Gao(Beijing University of Agriculture), Yi Tang(Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences), Shaohua Shi(Chinese Center For Disease Control and Prevention), Chunhe Wan(Shandong Agricultural University), Chen Zhang(Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences), Bin He(China Agricultural University), Mengjie Yang(Chinese Center For Disease Control and Prevention), Xinhao Lu(Beijing University of Agriculture), Yü Huang(Chinese Center For Disease Control and Prevention), Youxiang Diao(Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences), Xuejun Ma(Poultry Research Institute), Dabing Zhang(Center for Disease Control)
Emerging infectious diseases
September 13, 2011
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Abstract

In China in 2010, a disease outbreak in egg-laying ducks was associated with a flavivirus. The virus was isolated and partially sequenced. The isolate exhibited 87%-91% identity with strains of Tembusu virus, a mosquito-borne flavivirus of the Ntaya virus group. These findings demonstrate emergence of Tembusu virus in ducks.


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