Tembusu Virus in Ducks, China

Zhenzhen Cao, Cun Zhang, Yuehuan Liu, Weicheng Ye, Jingwen Han, Guoming Ma, Dongdong Zhang, Feng Xu, Xu-Hui Gao, Yi Tang,

Emerging infectious diseases · 2011 · 234 citations · 9 references

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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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