Seroprevalence of avian influenza in Baltic common eiders (Somateria mollissima) and pink-footed geese (Anser brachyrhynchus)

• Published in: Environment International
• Main Authors: Lam, Su Shiung, Tjørnløv, Rune Skjold, Therkildsen, Ole Roland, Christensen, Thomas Kjær, Madsen, Jesper, Daugaard-Petersen, Tobias, Castano-Ortíz, Jose M., Peng, Wanxi, Charbonneaux, Maël, Rivas, Esteban Iglesias, Garbus, Svend-Erik, Lyngs, Peter, Siebert, Ursula, Dietz, Rune, Maier-Sam, Kristina, Lierz, Michael, Tombre, Ingunn, Andersen-Ranberg, Emilie, Sonne, Christian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Christensen; Norway; Svalbard; Anser brachyrhynchus; Somateria mollissima
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2723523; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.105873

Influenza viruses are negative-sense single-stranded RNA viruses within the family of Orthomyxoviridae (Alexander, 2008). It holds Influenza A, B, C and D. Influenza A, B and C cause disease in humans, while only Influenza A viruses infect birds including waterfowl (Giwa et al., 2020, Lycett et al.,...