Wild bird influenza survey, Canada, 2005
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Published on: August 2, 2011
E Jane Parmley1, Nathalie Bastien, Timothy F Booth
1Centre for Coastal Health, 900 5th Street, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. parmleyj@mala.bc.ca
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|February 9, 2008
Abstract:
Of 4,268 wild ducks sampled in Canada in 2005, real-time reverse transcriptase-PCR detected influenza A matrix protein (M1) gene sequence in 37% and H5 gene sequence in 5%. Mallards accounted for 61% of samples, 73% of M1-positive ducks, and 90% of H5-positive ducks. Ducks hatched in 2005 accounted for 80% of the sample.
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