Volume 21, Number 12—December 2015
Dispatch
Aquatic Bird Bornavirus 1 in Wild Geese, Denmark
Anders F. Thomsen1, Jesper B. Nielsen1, Charlotte K. Hjulsager, Mariann Chriél, Dale A. Smith, and Mads F. Bertelsen
Table
Number and species of wild geese tested for ABBV-1 in 9 locations, Denmark, 2014*
| Species | No. positive/no. tested (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Randbøl | Wadden Sea | Lolland | Skelby | Værnengene | Mandø | Møn | Skjern Enge | Western coast of Jutland | All locations | |
| Greylag goose | 0/8 | 1†/37 (2.7) | 1‡/41 (2.4) | 0/2 | 0/3 | – | 1§/10 (1) | 1¶/28 (3.6) | 1#/6 (16.7) | 5/135 (3.7) |
| Pink-footed goose | – | – | – | 0/1 | 0/8 | – | – | 1**/41 (2.4) | 0/53 | 1/103 (1.0) |
| Barnacle goose | – | – | – | 0/3 | – | 1††/47 (2.1) | – | – | – | 1/50 (0.2) |
| Taiga bean goose | – | – | 0/7 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0/7 |
| Tundra bean goose | – | – | 0/7 | 0/1 | – | – | – | – | – | 0/8 |
| White-fronted goose | – | – | 0/6 | 0/1 | – | – | – | 0/1 | 0/8 | 0/16 |
| Canada goose | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0/13 | – | – | 0/13 |
| Hybrid |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
0/1 |
– |
– |
0/1 |
| All species | 0/8 | 1/37 (2.7) | 1/61 (1.6) | 0/8 | 0/11 | 1/47 (2.1) | 1/24 (4.1) | 2/70 (2.9) | 1/67 (1.5) | 7/333 (2.1) |
*ABBV-1, aquatic bird bornavirus 1. Dashes indicate none tested.
†GenBank accession no. KR075030.
‡GenBank accession no. KR075031.
§GenBank accession no. KR075033.
¶GenBank accession no. KR075035.
#GenBank accession no. KR075036.
**GenBank accession no. KR075034.
†† GenBank accession no. KR075032.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
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