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JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 209, Issue 1, Pages 34-37Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jit478
Keywords
live poultry market; domestic avian; wild bird; human 117N9; China
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- China Agriculture Research System Poultry-Related Science and Technology Innovation Team of Peking
- Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [KSCX2-EW-J-2]
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To trace the source of the avian H7N9 viruses, we collected 99 samples from 4 live poultry markets and the family farms of 3 patients in Hangzhou city of Zhejiang province, China. We found that almost all positive samples came from chickens and ducks in live poultry markets. These results strongly suggest that the live poultry markets are the major source of recent human infections with H7N9 in Hangzhou city, Zhejiang province of China. Therefore, control measures are needed, not only in the domestic bird population, but also in the live poultry markets to reduce human H7N9 infection risk.
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