New Avian Hepadnavirus in Palaeognathous Bird, Germany

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Jo, Wendy K. ; Pfankuche, Vanessa M. ; Petersen, Henning ; Frei, Samuel ; Kummrow, Maya ; Lorenzen, Stephan ; Ludlow, Martin ; Metzger, Julia ; Baumgärtner, Wolfgang ; Osterhaus, Albert ; van der Vries, Erhard
• Description:
  In 2015, we identified an avian hepatitis B virus associated with hepatitis in a group of captive elegant-crested tinamous (Eudromia elegans) in Germany. The full-length genome of this virus shares <76% sequence identity with other avihepadnaviruses. The virus may therefore be considered a new extant avian hepadnavirus.
• Subjects:
  Animals Animals, Zoo Biological Evolution Bird Diseases Extinction, Biological Genome, Viral Hepadnaviridae Hepadnaviridae Infections Hepatitis, Viral, Animal Host Specificity Humans Liver Open Reading Frames Palaeognathae Phylogeny Viral Proteins

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 23(12):2089-2091.
• Pubmed ID:
  29148393
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5708223
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Genre:
  Letter
• Place as Subject:
  Germany
• Volume:
  23
• Issue:
  12
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9d9072c5f2c3e463026c002fd4064c96c37da4f9f28d97b2250ce2ab6a4a2417
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/50179/cdc_50179_DS1.pdf
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