Human surveillance and phylogeny of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N8) during an outbreak in poultry in South Africa, 2017.
Ziyaad Valley-OmarAlicia CloeteReneé PieterseSibongile WalazaYusrah Salie-BassierMikhail SmithNevashan GovenderMpho SelekaOrienka HellfersceePhillip Senzo MtshaliMushal AllamArshad IsmailTasneem AnthonyMichelle SeutloaliKerrigan McCarthyLesley van HeldenCheryl CohenFlorette Kathleen TreurnichtPublished in: Influenza and other respiratory viruses (2020)
Diagnostic assays were able to detect and characterize influenza A(H5N8) viruses, but poor performance is reported for a commercial assay. Absence of influenza A(H5N8) in humans with occupational exposure and no clear impression of molecular adaptation for mammalian infection suggest that this avian pathogen continues to be low-risk human pathogen.