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Avian influenza in Australia: a summary of 5 years of wild bird surveillance

Overview of attention for article published in Australian Veterinary Journal, October 2015
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Title
Avian influenza in Australia: a summary of 5 years of wild bird surveillance
Published in
Australian Veterinary Journal, October 2015
DOI 10.1111/avj.12379
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VL Grillo, KE Arzey, PM Hansbro, AC Hurt, S Warner, J Bergfeld, GW Burgess, B Cookson, CJ Dickason, M Ferenczi, T Hollingsworth, MDA Hoque, RB Jackson, M Klaassen, PD Kirkland, NY Kung, S Lisovski, MA O'Dea, K O'Riley, D Roshier, LF Skerratt, JP Tracey, X Wang, R Woods, L Post

Abstract

Avian influenza viruses (AIVs) are found worldwide in numerous bird species, causing significant disease in gallinaceous poultry and occasionally other species. Surveillance of wild bird reservoirs provides an opportunity to add to the understanding of the epidemiology of AIVs. This study examined key findings from the National Avian Influenza Wild Bird Surveillance Program over a 5-year period (July 2007-June 2012), the main source of information on AIVs circulating in Australia. The overall proportion of birds that tested positive for influenza A via PCR was 1.9 ± 0.1%, with evidence of widespread exposure of Australian wild birds to most low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) subtypes (H1-13, H16). LPAI H5 subtypes were found to be dominant and widespread during this 5-year period. Given Australia's isolation, both geographically and ecologically, it is important for Australia not to assume that the epidemiology of AIV from other geographic regions applies here. Despite all previous highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreaks in Australian poultry being attributed to H7 subtypes, widespread detection of H5 subtypes in wild birds may represent an ongoing risk to the Australian poultry industry.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Italy 1 2%
Unknown 51 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 19%
Other 5 9%
Student > Bachelor 4 8%
Professor 4 8%
Researcher 4 8%
Other 8 15%
Unknown 18 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 19%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 9 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 9%
Environmental Science 4 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 4%
Other 4 8%
Unknown 19 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 47. 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 08 October 2020.
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#847,110
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#15
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#13,094
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Outputs of similar age from Australian Veterinary Journal
#1
of 14 outputs
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