Avian influenza H5N1 outbreak in a flock of mute swans in the city of Torun, Poland, in 2006

Bulletin of the Veterinary Institute in Pulawy

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 491-495

  Śmietanka, Krzysztof ^a   Minta, Zenon ^a   Domańska Blicharz, Katarzyna ^a   Tomczyk, Grzegorz ^a   Wijaszka, Tadeusz ^a  

^a NATIONAL VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Avian influenza; H5N1; Swans

Indexed keywords

AVES; CYGNUS; CYGNUS OLOR;

EID: 84859363278     PISSN: 00424870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Anon.: Commission Decision 2006/437/EC of 4 August 2006 approving a Diagnostic Manual for avian influenza as provided for in Council Directive 2005/94/EC. Off J Eur Union L 237/1-27.
2. Alexander D.J.: Summary of avian influenza activity in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia, 2002-2006. Avian Dis 2007, 51, 161-166.
3. Becker W.B.: The isolation and classification of tern virus: influenza virus A/tern/South Africa/1961. J Hyg 1966, 64, 309-320.
4. Brown J.D., Stallknecht D.E., Beck J.R., Suarez D.L., Swayne D.E.: Susceptibility of North American ducks and gulls to H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses. Emerg Infect Dis 2006, 12, 1663-1670.
5. Chen H., Smith G.J.D., Zhang S.Y., Qin K., Wang J., Li K.S., Webster R.G., Peiris J.S.M., Guan Y.: H5N1 virus outbreak in migratory waterfowl. Nature 2005, 436, 191-192.
6. Chen H., Li Y., Li Z., Shi J., Shinya K., Deng G., Qi Q., Tian G., Fan S., Zhao H., Sun Y., Kawaoka Y.: Properties and dissemination of H5N1 viruses isolated during and influenza outbreak in migratory waterfowl in western China. J Virol 2006, 80, 5976-5983.
7. Chen H.X., Shen H.G., Li X.L., Zhou J.Y., Hou Y.Q., Guo J.Q., Hu J.Q.: Seroprevalence and identification of influenza A virus infection from migratory wild waterfowl in China (2004-2005). J Vet Med B Infect Dis Vet Public Health 2006, 53, 166-170.
8. Ellis T.M., Bousfield R.B., Bissett L.A., Dyrting K.C., Luk G.S.M., Tsim S.T., Sturm-Ramirez K., Webster R.G., Guan Y., Peiris J.S.M.: Investigation of outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in waterfowl and wild birds in Hong Kong in late 2002. Avian Pathol 2004, 33, 492-505.
9. Feare C.J.: The role of wild birds in the spread of HPAI H5N1. Avian Dis 2007, 51, 440-447.
10. Feare C.J., Yasué M.: Asymptomatic infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 in wild birds: how sound is the evidence? Virol J 2006, 3, 96.
11. Kathloff D., Breithaupt A., Teifke J.P., Globig A., Harder T., Mettenleiter T.C., Beer M.: Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N1) in experimentally infected adult mute swans. Emerg Infect Dis 2008, 14, 1267-1270.
12. Kou Z., Lei F.M., Yu J., Fan Z.J., Yin, Z.H., Jia C.X., Xiong K.J., Sun Y.H., Zhang X.W., Wu X.M., Gao X.B., Lil T.X.: New genotype of avian influenza H5N1 viruses isolated from tree sparrows in China. J Virol 2005, 79, 15460-15466.
13. Lvov D.K., Schelkanov M.I.U., Deriabin P.G., Grebennikova T.V., Prilipov A.G., Nepoklonov E.A., Onishchenko G.G., Vlasov N.A., Aliper T.I., Zaberezhnyi A.D., Kireev D.E., Krasheninnikov O.P., Kiryukhin S.T., Burtseva E.I., Slepushkin A.N.: Isolation of influenza A/H5N1 virus strains from poultry and wild birds in west Siberia during epizooty (July 2005) and their depositing to the state collection of viruses (August 2005). Vopr Virusol 2006, 51, 11-14.
14. Mase M., Tsukamoto K., Imada T., Imai K., Tanimura N., Nakamura K., Yamamoto Y., Hitomi T., Kira T., Nakai T., Kiso M., Horimoto T., Kawaoka Y., Yamaguchi S.: Characterization of H5N1 influenza A viruses isolated during the 2003-2004 influenza outbreaks in Japan. Virology 2005, 332, 167-176.
15. Minta Z., Smietanka K.: Zastosowanie testu C-ELISA do wykrywania zakazen wirusami grypy ptaków u róznych gatunków ptaków. Conference "Aktualne problemy w patologii drobiu". Wroclaw, 2006, pp.207-211.
16. Minta Z., Smietanka K., Domanska-Blicharz K., Tomczyk G., Wijaszka T.: Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 in wild birds in Poland-analysis of first cases). Medycyna Wet 2007, 63, 1349-1352.
17. Munster V.J., Baas C., Lexmond P., Waldenstrom J., Wallensten A., Fransson T., Rimmelzwaan G.F., Beyer W.E.P., Schutten M., Olsen B., Osterhaus A.D.M.E., Fouchier R.A.M.: Spatial, temporal, and species variation in prevalence of influenza A viruses in wild migratory birds. PLoS Pathog 2007, 5, 630-638.
18. Perkins L.E., Swayne D.E.: Susceptibility of laughing gulls (Larus atricilla) to H5N1 and H5N3 avian influenza viruses. Avian Dis 2002, 46, 877-885.
19. Perkins L.E., Swayne D.E.: Comparative susceptibility of selected avian and mammalian species to a Hong Kongorigin H5N1 high-pathogenicity avian influenza virus. Avian Dis 2003, 47, 956-967.
20. Shafer A.L., Katz J.B., Eernisse K.A.: Development and validation of a competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of type A influenza antibodies in avian sera. Avian Dis 1998, 42, 28-34.
21. Slomka M.J., Coward V.J., Banks J., Löndt B.Z., Brown I.H., Voermans J., Koch G., Handberg K.J., Jørgensen P.H., Cherbonnel-Pansart M., Jestin V., Cattoli G., Capua I., Ejdersund A., Thorén P., Czifra G.: Identification of sensitive and specific avian influenza polymerase chain reaction methods through blind ring trials organized in the European Union. Avian Dis 2007, 51, 227-234.
22. Spackman E., Senne D.A., Myers T.J., Bulaga L.L., Garber L.P., Perdue M.L., Lohman K., Daum L.T., Suarez D.L.: Development of a real-time reverse transcriptase PCR assay for type A influenza virus and the avian H5 and H7 hemagglutinin subtypes. J Clin Microbiol 2002, 40, 3256-3260.
23. Webster R.G., Bean W.J., Gorman O.T., Chambers T.M., Kawaoka Y.: Evolution and ecology of influenza A viruses. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 1992, 56, 152-179.
24. Wlodarczyk R., Szeleszczuk P.: Ornithological features of a mute swan (Cyngus olor) flock from the first HPAI H5N1 outbreak in Poland. Medycyna Wet 2008, 62, 227-230.