Conflicting Evidence between Clinical Perception and Molecular Epidemiology: The Case of Fowl Adenovirus D.

ABSTRACT: Fowl adenoviruses (FAdVs, species FAdV-A/-E) are responsible for several clinical syndromes reported with increasing frequency in poultry farms in the last decades. In the present study, a phylodynamic analysis was performed on a group of FAdV-D Hexon sequences with adequate available metadata. The obtained results demonstrated the long-term circulation of this species, at least several decades before the first identification of the disease. After a period of progressive increase, the viral population showed a high-level circulation from approximately the 1960s to the beginning of the new millennium, mirroring the expansion of intensive poultry production and animal trade. At the same time, strain migration occurred mainly from Europe to other continents, although other among-continent con

SUBMITTER: Franzo G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10741239 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature