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. 2015;61(4):635-639.
doi: 10.1007/s10344-015-0931-7. Epub 2015 May 22.

Diverse gammacoronaviruses detected in wild birds from Madagascar

Francisco Esmaile de Sales Lima  1 , Patricia Gil  2   3 , Miguel Pedrono  4   5 , Cécile Minet  2   3 , Olivier Kwiatek  2   3 , Fabrício Souza Campos  1 , Fernando Rosado Spilki  1 , Paulo Michel Roehe  1 , Ana Cláudia Franco  1 , Olivier Fridolin Maminiaina  4 , Emmanuel Albina  2   3   6 , Renata Servan de Almeida  2   3
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Diverse gammacoronaviruses detected in wild birds from Madagascar

Francisco Esmaile de Sales Lima et al. Eur J Wildl Res. 2015.

Abstract

To date, infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) is potentially found in wild birds of different species. This work reports the survey of coronaviruses in wild birds from Madagascar based on the targeting of a conserved genome sequence among different groups of CoVs. Phylogenetic analyses revealed the presence of gammacoronaviruses in different species of Gruiformes, Passeriformes, Ciconiiformes, Anseriformes, and Charadriiformes. Furthermore, some sequences were related to various IBV strains. Aquatic and migratory birds may play an important role in the maintenance and spread of coronaviruses in nature, highlighting their possible contribution in the emergence of new coronavirus diseases in wild and domestic birds.

Keywords: Gammacoronavirus; Madagascar; Wild birds.

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Phylogenetic relationship between the nucleotide sequences corresponding to a portion of 350 bp of the Coronavirus gene (RNA-dependent RNA polymerase gene) amplified from wild birds at Alaotra Lake. Coronavirus detected in wild bird species in this study are denoted by black diamonds and their corresponding GenBank accession numbers. Sequences from others coronaviruses were included for comparative purposes
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