Searching for high pathogenicity avian influenza virus in Antarctica

Affiliations

¹ Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain.
² Department of Viroscience, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
³ Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany.
⁴ Instituto de Biología de Organismos Marinos (IBIOMAR-CONICET), Puerto Madryn, Argentina.
⁵ Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center, One Health Institute, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
⁶ Ocean Expeditions Support Vessel S/V Australis, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁷ Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain. aalcami@cbm.csic.es.
⁸ Future Regions Research Centre, Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. m.dewar@federation.edu.au.

^# Contributed equally.

Begoña Aguado et al. Nat Microbiol. 2024 Dec.

. 2024 Dec;9(12):3081-3083.

doi: 10.1038/s41564-024-01868-7.

¹ Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain.
² Department of Viroscience, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
³ Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany.
⁴ Instituto de Biología de Organismos Marinos (IBIOMAR-CONICET), Puerto Madryn, Argentina.
⁵ Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center, One Health Institute, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
⁶ Ocean Expeditions Support Vessel S/V Australis, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁷ Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain. aalcami@cbm.csic.es.
⁸ Future Regions Research Centre, Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. m.dewar@federation.edu.au.

^# Contributed equally.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

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