First sequence of influenza D virus identified in poultry farm bioaerosols in Sarawak, Malaysia.
Emily S BaileyJane K FieldhouseNatalie A AlarjaDavid D ChenMaria E KovalikJuliana N ZemkeJessica Y ChoiLaura K BorkenhagenTeck-Hock TohJeffrey Soon Yit LeeKuek-Sen ChongGregory C GrayPublished in: Tropical diseases, travel medicine and vaccines (2020)
In 2018, our team collected aerosols samples from five poultry farms in Malaysia. Influenza D virus was detected in 14% of samples. One sample had an 86.3% identity score similar to NCBI accession number MH785020.1. This is the first molecular sequence of influenza D virus detected in Southeast Asia from a bioaerosol sample. Our findings indicate that further study of role of IDV in poultry is necessary.