Absence of coronaviruses, paramyxoviruses, and influenza A viruses in seabirds in the southwestern Indian Ocean

Camille Lebarbenchon; Audrey Jaeger; Matthieu Bastien; Matthieu Le Corre; Koussay Dellagi; Hervé Pascalis

doi:10.7589/2012-09-227

Absence of coronaviruses, paramyxoviruses, and influenza A viruses in seabirds in the southwestern Indian Ocean

J Wildl Dis. 2013 Oct;49(4):1056-9. doi: 10.7589/2012-09-227.

Authors

Camille Lebarbenchon¹, Audrey Jaeger, Matthieu Bastien, Matthieu Le Corre, Koussay Dellagi, Hervé Pascalis

Affiliation

¹ 1 Centre de Recherche et de Veille sur les Maladies Émergentes dans l'Ocean Indien, plateforme de recherche Cyclotron Reunion Ocean Indien, 2 rue Maxime Rivière-BP 80005, 97491 Sainte Clotilde cedex, La Réunion, France.

PMID: 24502741
DOI: 10.7589/2012-09-227

Abstract

We investigated circulation of coronaviruses, paramyxoviruses, and influenza A viruses in eight seabird species of the southwestern Indian Ocean. Viruses were not detected by real-time polymerase chain reactions in the 338 tested cloacal swab samples, supporting that they did not circulate in the studied colonies at the time of sampling.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Bird Diseases / epidemiology
Bird Diseases / virology*
Charadriiformes*
Cloaca / virology
Coronaviridae / isolation & purification*
Indian Ocean / epidemiology
Influenza A virus / isolation & purification*
Paramyxoviridae / isolation & purification*
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction