First sequence of influenza D virus identified in poultry farm bioaerosols in Sarawak, Malaysia

Emily S Bailey; Jane K Fieldhouse; Natalie A Alarja; David D Chen; Maria E Kovalik; Juliana N Zemke; Jessica Y Choi; Laura K Borkenhagen; Teck-Hock Toh; Jeffrey Soon Yit Lee; Kuek-Sen Chong; Gregory C Gray

doi:10.1186/s40794-020-0105-9

First sequence of influenza D virus identified in poultry farm bioaerosols in Sarawak, Malaysia

Trop Dis Travel Med Vaccines. 2020 Mar 12:6:5. doi: 10.1186/s40794-020-0105-9. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Emily S Bailey^{1

2

3}, Jane K Fieldhouse^{1

2}, Natalie A Alarja^{1

2}, David D Chen², Maria E Kovalik², Juliana N Zemke², Jessica Y Choi², Laura K Borkenhagen^{1

2}, Teck-Hock Toh^{4

5}, Jeffrey Soon Yit Lee⁴, Kuek-Sen Chong^{5

6}, Gregory C Gray^{1

2

7

8}

Affiliations

¹ 1Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, DUMC Box 102359, Durham, NC 27710 USA.
² 2Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina USA.
³ 3Julia Jones Matthews Department of Public Health, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Abilene, TX USA.
⁴ 4Clinical Research Center, Sibu Hospital, Sibu, Sarawak Malaysia.
⁵ 5Faculty of Medicine, SEGi University, Kota Damansara, Selangor Malaysia.
⁶ Divisional Health Office, Sibu, Sarawak Malaysia.
⁷ 7Global Health Research Center, Duke-Kunshan University, Kunshan, China.
⁸ 8Emerging Infectious Disease Program, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore.

Abstract

In 2018, our team collected aerosols samples from five poultry farms in Malaysia. Influenza D virus was detected in 14% of samples. One sample had an 86.3% identity score similar to NCBI accession number MH785020.1. This is the first molecular sequence of influenza D virus detected in Southeast Asia from a bioaerosol sample. Our findings indicate that further study of role of IDV in poultry is necessary.

Keywords: Aerosol; Bioaerosol; Influenza; Influenza D virus; Poultry.