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Pasteurized retail dairy enables genomic surveillance of H5N1 avian influenza virus in United States cattle

Lail, A. J.; Vuyk, W. C.; Machkovech, H.; Minor, N. R.; Hassan, N. R.; Dalvie, R.; Emmen, I. E.; Wolf, S.; Kalweit, A.; Wilson, N.; Newman, C. M.; Tiburcio, P. B.; Weiler, A.; Friedrich, T. C.; O'Connor, D. H.

2024-12-13 infectious diseases
10.1101/2024.12.12.24318872 medRxiv
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Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses with H5 hemagglutinin (HA) genes (clade 2.3.4.4b) are causing an ongoing panzootic in wild birds. Circulation of these viruses is associated with spillover infections in multiple species of mammals, including a large, unprecedented outbreak in American dairy cattle. With limited testing of dairy herds, there is an unmet need for genomic surveillance. Infected cattle can shed high amounts of HPAI H5N1 viruses in milk, allowing detection in pasteurized retail dairy samples. Over a 2-month sampling period in one Midwestern city, we obtained dairy products processed in 20 different states. Here we demonstrate that a tiled-amplicon sequencing approach produced over 90% genome coverage at greater than 20x depth from 5 of 13 viral RNA positive samples. A combination of RT-qPCR testing and sequencing from retail dairy products can be a useful component of a One Health framework for responding to the avian influenza outbreak in cattle.

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