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. 2009 Jul;15(7):1081-3.
doi: 10.3201/eid1507.081574.

Influenza virus A (H1N1) in giant anteaters (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)

Sally Nofs  1 , Mohamed Abd-Eldaim, Kathy V Thomas, David Toplon, Dawn Rouse, Melissa Kennedy
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Influenza virus A (H1N1) in giant anteaters (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)

Sally Nofs et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 Jul.

Abstract

In February 2007, an outbreak of respiratory disease occurred in a group of giant anteaters (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) at the Nashville Zoo. Isolates from 2 affected animals were identified in March 2007 as a type A influenza virus related to human influenza subtype H1N1.

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Phylogenetic tree based on the nucleotide sequence of the A) hemagglutinin (HA) gene and B) neuraminidase (NA) gene of the anteater isolate of influenza virus with 6 related isolates obtained from GenBank. GenBank accession numbers for the other isolates used: Tennessee/UR06-0119/2007(H1N1): HA-CY027379, NA-CY027381; Texas/ur06/0012/2006(H1N1): HA-CY025213, NA-CY025215; Vermont/UR06/0089/2007(H1N1): HA-CY025795; NA-CY025797; Oklahoma/UR06/0063/2007(H1N1): HA-CY027771, NA-CY027773; New York/399/2003(H1N1): HA-CY002808, NA-CY002810; and South Australia/67/2005(H1N1): HA-CY016691, NA-CY016693.
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