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Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 Virus Infections in Wild Red Foxes (Vulpes vulpes) Show Neurotropism and Adaptive Virus Mutations

2023; American Society for Microbiology; Volume: 11; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1128/spectrum.02867-22

ISSN

2165-0497

Autores

Luca Bordes, Sandra Vreman, René Heutink, Marit Roose, Sandra Venema, Sylvia B.E. Pritz-Verschuren, Jolianne M. Rijks, José L. Gonzáles, Evelien A. Germeraad, M.Y. Engelsma, Nancy Beerens,

Tópico(s)

Respiratory viral infections research

Resumo

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses caused high mortality among wild birds from 2021 to 2022 in the Netherlands. Recently, three wild foxes were found to be infected with HPAI H5N1 viruses, likely due to the foxes feeding on infected birds.

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