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D. Oluwayelu, C. O. Aiki-Raji, Oladunni Taiwo Adigun, O. K. Olofintuyi, A. Adebiyi
Influenza research and treatment, 2015
Influenza research and treatment, 2015
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Oluwayelu, D., Aiki-Raji, C. O., Adigun, O. T., Olofintuyi, O. K., & Adebiyi, A. (2015). Serological Survey for Avian Influenza in Turkeys in Three States of Southwest Nigeria. Influenza Research and Treatment.
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Oluwayelu, D., C. O. Aiki-Raji, Oladunni Taiwo Adigun, O. K. Olofintuyi, and A. Adebiyi. “Serological Survey for Avian Influenza in Turkeys in Three States of Southwest Nigeria.” Influenza research and treatment (2015).
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Oluwayelu, D., et al. “Serological Survey for Avian Influenza in Turkeys in Three States of Southwest Nigeria.” Influenza Research and Treatment, 2015.
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@article{d2015a,
title = {Serological Survey for Avian Influenza in Turkeys in Three States of Southwest Nigeria},
year = {2015},
journal = {Influenza research and treatment},
author = {Oluwayelu, D. and Aiki-Raji, C. O. and Adigun, Oladunni Taiwo and Olofintuyi, O. K. and Adebiyi, A.}
}
Abstract
Since the first outbreak of avian influenza (AI) in Nigeria in 2006, there has been continuous monitoring of the disease in chickens with little attention given to turkeys. As part of on-going surveillance for AI in southwest Nigeria, we used a competitive ELISA to detect anti-AI virus antibodies in 520 turkey sera obtained from poultry farms in Oyo, Osun, and Ondo states while haemagglutination inhibiting antibodies against low pathogenic AI viruses (LPAIVs) were detected using H3N8 and H5N2 subtype-specific antigens. The overall seroprevalence obtained by ELISA was 4.4% (23/520). Of the 23 ELISA-positive samples, 18 were positive for anti-AIV H3N8 antibodies only and four were positive for both anti-AIV H3N8 and H5N2 antibodies indicating a mixed infection, while five were negative for antibodies to either of the two AIV subtypes. Considering that turkeys have been implicated as a mixing vessel for generating influenza virus reassortants of human and avian origin, the detection of antibodies to LPAIV H3N8 and H5N2 in these turkeys is of public health concern. We advocate further studies to determine the potential role of turkeys in the zoonotic transmission of AIVs in Nigeria. Additionally, the practice of rearing turkeys with chickens should be discouraged.
