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TRANSBOUNDARY AND EMERGING DISEASES
Volume 69, Issue 5, Pages E2889-E2897Publisher
WILEY-HINDAWI
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.14639
Keywords
avian influenza virus; environmental water; migratory aquatic birds; overwintering site; phylogenetic variations; virus isolation
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- Environment Research and Technology Development Fund [JPMEERF18S20104]
- City of Izumi, Japan
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By improving the method for isolating avian influenza viruses (AIVs) from environmental water samples, we were able to significantly increase the recovery efficiency and isolate a larger number of AIVs from water samples collected at a wintering site. Genetic analysis showed that multiple genetic constellations of the same AIV subtypes were circulating in a single winter season.
Environmental water-targeted surveillance of migratory aquatic birds at overwintering sites is potentially one of the most effective approaches for understanding the ecology of avian influenza viruses (AIVs). In this study, we improved the method for AIV isolation from environmental water samples by making a minor modification to our previously reported process. We experimentally demonstrated that the AIV recovery efficiency of the modified method was 10-100-fold higher than that of the original method. This improved isolation method allowed us to isolate a considerably larger number of AIV isolates from environmental water samples collected at an overwintering site for tens of thousands of migratory aquatic birds in Japan during the 2018/2019 winter season, compared with those during previous winter seasons. Genetic and phylogenetic analyses revealed that AIVs of the same subtypes with multiple genetic constellations were circulating in a single overwintering site during a single winter season. These findings indicate that our improved isolation method contributes to enhance environmental water-targeted surveillance and to a better understanding of AIV ecology in migratory aquatic bird populations by monitoring ongoing AIV circulation.
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