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Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H7N3) Virus in Poultry Workers, Mexico, 2012

2013; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Volume: 19; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3201/eid1909.130087

ISSN

1080-6059

Autores

Irma López‐Martínez, Amanda Balish, Gisela Barrera-Badillo, Joyce Jones, Tatiana Ernestina Núñez-García, Yunho Jang, Rodrigo Aparicio‐Antonio, Eduardo Azziz‐Baumgartner, Jessica A. Belser, José Ernesto Ramírez–González, Janice C. Pedersen, Joanna María Ortiz-Alcántara, Elizabeth González-Durán, Bo Shu, Shannon Emery, Mee Kian Poh, Gustavo Reyes‐Terán, Joel Armando Vázquez-Pérez, Santiago Ávila‐Ríos, Timothy M. Uyeki, Stephen Lindstrom, Julie Villanueva, Jerome I. Tokars, Cuitláhuac Ruíz-Matus, Jesús Felipe González-Roldán, Beverly J. Schmitt, Alexander Klimov, Nancy J. Cox, Pablo Kuri‐Morales, C. Todd Davis, José Alberto Dí­az-Quiñónez,

Tópico(s)

Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology

Resumo

We identified 2 poultry workers with conjunctivitis caused by highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H7N3) viruses in Jalisco, Mexico. Genomic and antigenic analyses of 1 isolate indicated relatedness to poultry and wild bird subtype H7N3 viruses from North America. This isolate had a multibasic cleavage site that might have been derived from recombination with host rRNA.

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