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  • Isolation and characterization of avian influenza viruses from raw poultry products illegally imported to Japan by international flight passengers

    Transbound Emerg Dis. 2017 Oct 16. doi: 10.1111/tbed.12726. [Epub ahead of print]
    Isolation and characterization of avian influenza viruses from raw poultry products illegally imported to Japan by international flight passengers.

    Shibata A1, Hiono T2, Fukuhara H3, Sumiyoshi R1, Ohkawara A2, Matsuno K2,4, Okamatsu M2, Osaka H1, Sakoda Y2,4.
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    Abstract

    The transportation of poultry and related products for international trade contributes to transboundary pathogen spread and disease outbreaks worldwide. To prevent pathogen incursion through poultry products, many countries have regulations about animal health and poultry product quarantine. However, in Japan, animal products have been illegally introduced into the country in baggage and confiscated at the airport. Lately, the number of illegally imported poultry and the incursion risk of transboundary pathogens through poultry products have been increasing. In this study, we isolated avian influenza viruses (AIVs) from raw poultry products illegally imported to Japan by international passengers. Highly (H5N1 and H5N6) and low (H9N2 and H1N2) pathogenic AIVs were isolated from raw chicken and duck products carried by flight passengers. H5 and H9 isolates were phylogenetically closely related to viruses isolated from poultry in China, and haemagglutinin genes of H5N1 and H5N6 isolates belonged to clades 2.3.2.1c and 2.3.4.4, respectively. Experimental infections of H5 and H9 isolates in chickens and ducks demonstrated pathogenicity and tissue tropism to skeletal muscles. To prevent virus incursion by poultry products, it is important to encourage the phased cleaning based on the disease control and eradication and promote the reduction in contamination risk in animal products.
    ? 2017 Blackwell Verlag GmbH.


    KEYWORDS:

    avian influenza; influenza virus; quarantine; surveillance; zoonosis

    PMID: 29034617 DOI: 10.1111/tbed.12726
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