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Volume 21, Number 5—May 2015

Dispatch

Novel Eurasian Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A H5 Viruses in Wild Birds, Washington, USA, 2014

Hon S. Ip1, Mia Kim Torchetti1Comments to Author , Rocio Crespo, Paul Kohrs, Paul DeBruyn, Kristin G. Mansfield, Timothy Baszler, Lyndon Badcoe, Barbara Bodenstein, Valerie Shearn-Bochsler, Mary Lea Killian, Janice C. Pedersen, Nichole Hines, Thomas Gidlewski, Thomas J. DeLiberto, and Jonathan M. Sleeman
Author affiliations: US Geologic Survey–National Wildlife Health Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA (H.S. Ip, B. Bodenstein, V. Shearn-Bochsler, J.M. Sleeman); US Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, USA (M.K. Torchetti, M.L. Killian, J.C. Pedersen, N. Hines); Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA (R. Crespo, T. Baszler); Washington Department of Agriculture, Olympia, Washington, USA (P. Kohrs, T. Baszler, L. Badcoe); Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Olympia (P. DeBruyn, K.G. Mansfield); US Department of Agriculture, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (T. Gidlewski, T. DeLiberto)

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Table 1

Summary of influenza test results for samples from 10 birds from Washington, USA, 2014*

Sample ID no. Species, common name Necropsy AIV status Diagnostic finding
26080–001 Northern shoveler Yes PCR negative, isolation negative Aspergillosis
26080–002 Northern pintail Yes Subtype H5N2 Aspergillosis, HPAI
26080–003 American wigeon Yes PCR positive, isolation negative Aspergillosis
26080–004 American wigeon No PCR negative, isolation negative ND
26080–005 American wigeon No PCR negative, isolation negative ND
26080–006† Mallard Yes PCR positive, isolation negative Aspergillosis
26080–007† Mallard Yes PCR positive, isolation negative Aspergillosis
26080–008† Mallard No PCR positive, isolation negative ND
26080–009 Trumpeter swan Yes PCR negative, isolation negative Emaciation
RW099878 Gyrfalcon Yes Subtype H5N8 HPAI

*AIV, avian influenza virus; HPAI, highly pathogenic avian influenza; ID, identification, ND, not determined.
†Specimens tested by the Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

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