Avian influenza virus surveillance in high arctic breeding Geese, Greenland

International audience The connectedness in Arctic regions between migratory waterbird populations originating from different continents and the potential for virus exchange at their shared Arctic breeding ground point to the need to explore the largely unstudied circumpolar circulation of avian inf...

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Published in:Avian Diseases
Main Authors: Gaidet, Nicolas, Leclercq, India, Batejat, Christophe, Grassin, Quentin, Daufresne, Tanguy, Manuguerra, Jean-Claude
Other Authors: Animal, Santé, Territoires, Risques et Ecosystèmes (UMR ASTRE), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Cellule Pasteur, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité, Environnement et Risques infectieux - Environment and Infectious Risks (ERI), Institut Pasteur Paris, Ecologie fonctionnelle et biogéochimie des sols et des agro-écosystèmes (UMR Eco&Sols), Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2018
Subjects:
migratory bird
arctic
water
feather
wildfowl
ice
environment
[SDV.BA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology
Arctic
Greenland
Anser brachyrhynchus
Branta leucopsis
Online Access:https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-02620939
https://doi.org/10.1637/11793-010418-ResNote.1
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Summary:International audience The connectedness in Arctic regions between migratory waterbird populations originating from different continents and the potential for virus exchange at their shared Arctic breeding ground point to the need to explore the largely unstudied circumpolar circulation of avian influenza viruses (AIV). We here report the investigation of AIV in wild birds and lakes in a high Arctic area of Northeast Greenland. No AIV could be detected in the fecal, feather, and water samples collected from large flocks of pink-footed geese Anser brachyrhynchus and barnacle geese Branta leucopsis in and around refuge lakes, where they congregate at high density during their flightless molting period in summer.

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