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Susceptibility to and transmission of H5N1 and H7N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses in bank voles (Myodes glareolus)

Overview of attention for article published in Veterinary Research, May 2015
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Title
Susceptibility to and transmission of H5N1 and H7N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses in bank voles (Myodes glareolus)
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Veterinary Research, May 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13567-015-0184-1
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Aurora Romero Tejeda, Roberta Aiello, Angela Salomoni, Valeria Berton, Marta Vascellari, Giovanni Cattoli

Abstract

The study of influenza type A (IA) infections in wild mammals populations is a critical gap in our knowledge of how IA viruses evolve in novel hosts that could be in close contact with avian reservoir species and other wild animals. The aim of this study was to evaluate the susceptibility to infection, the nasal shedding and the transmissibility of the H7N1 and H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses in the bank vole (Myodes glareolus), a wild rodent common throughout Europe and Asia. Two out of 24 H5N1-infected voles displayed evident respiratory distress, while H7N1-infected voles remained asymptomatic. Viable virus was isolated from nasal washes collected from animals infected with both HPAI viruses, and extra-pulmonary infection was confirmed in both experimental groups. Histopathological lesions were evident in the respiratory tract of infected animals, although immunohistochemistry positivity was only detected in lungs and trachea of two H7N1-infected voles. Both HPAI viruses were transmitted by direct contact, and seroconversion was confirmed in 50% and 12.5% of the asymptomatic sentinels in the H7N1 and H5N1 groups, respectively. Interestingly, viable virus was isolated from lungs and nasal washes collected from contact sentinels of both groups. The present study demonstrated that two non-rodent adapted HPAI viruses caused asymptomatic infection in bank voles, which shed high amounts of the viruses and were able to infect contact voles. Further investigations are needed to determine whether bank voles could be involved as silent hosts in the transmission of HPAI viruses to other mammals and domestic poultry.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Italy 1 2%
Unknown 42 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 14 32%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 14%
Student > Master 5 11%
Student > Bachelor 4 9%
Other 3 7%
Other 8 18%
Unknown 4 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 32%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 7 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 14%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 7%
Environmental Science 2 5%
Other 6 14%
Unknown 6 14%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 February 2023.
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Outputs of similar age from Veterinary Research
#1
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