Detection of H5N1-Related PB1 Sequences in a Low Pathogenic H11N2 Virus from South American Migratory Shorebirds
Jansen de Araujo, Helena Lage Ferreira, Thomas P. Fabrizio, Luciano Matsumiya Thomazelli, David Walker, Tatiana Ometto, Giovana Santos Caleiro, Desyrée Yumiko Sadoyama Rangel Ozaki, Nicole Almeida dos Reis, Gustavo Oliveira Fenner, Fernanda Panicio Vizu, Antônio Coimbra de Brum, Mateus Luís Haas, Júlia Victória Grohmann Finger, Maria Virginia Petry, Victória Deecken Becker, Douglas Ribeiro da Silva, Pedro Henrique de Oliveira Hoffmann, Isabele Colla Lazzari Royes, João Renato R. Pinho, Deyvid Amgarten, Erick G. Dorlass, Ana L. Boechat Borges, Fernanda de Mello Malta, Danielle Bruna L. Oliveira, Alessandra Greatti, Robert G. Webster, Richard J. Webby, Clarice Weis Arns, Edison L. Durigon · 2026
Read Detection of H5N1-Related PB1 Sequences in a Low Pathogenic H11N2 Virus from South American Migratory Shorebirds by Jansen de Araujo, Helena Lage Ferreira, Thomas P. Fabrizio, Luciano Matsumiya Thomazelli, David Walker, Tatiana Ometto, Giovana Santos Caleiro, Desyrée Yumiko Sadoyama Rangel Ozaki, Nicole Almeida dos Reis, Gustavo Oliveira Fenner, Fernanda Panicio Vizu, Antônio Coimbra de Brum, Mateus Luís Haas, Júlia Victória Grohmann Finger, Maria Virginia Petry, Victória Deecken Becker, Douglas Ribeiro da Silva, Pedro Henrique de Oliveira Hoffmann, Isabele Colla Lazzari Royes, João Renato R. Pinho, Deyvid Amgarten, Erick G. Dorlass, Ana L. Boechat Borges, Fernanda de Mello Malta, Danielle Bruna L. Oliveira, Alessandra Greatti, Robert G. Webster, Richard J. Webby, Clarice Weis Arns, Edison L. Durigon (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13431619.txt.
Description
Jansen de Araujo and a large team reported a mild bird flu virus in 2026 from a migrant shorebird in southern Brazil. One gene segment of the virus showed close kinship to the feared H5N1 line. The bird, a white-rumped sandpiper, was caught at a national park during stepped-up watch for the high-risk virus as it spread across the Americas.
Full genome reads showed seven of eight segments matched shorebird viruses from a bay on the North American coast with high closeness. The odd segment out matched the line tied to the H5N1 form now moving through the Americas. Clock-based family tree work placed that segment's roots with North American mild viruses of recent date. No high-risk virus turned up in the study itself. The authors urge steady watch over migrant birds to track how such gene parts move.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jansen de Araujo, Helena Lage Ferreira, Thomas P. Fabrizio, Luciano Matsumiya Thomazelli, David Walker, Tatiana Ometto, Giovana Santos Caleiro, Desyrée Yumiko Sadoyama Rangel Ozaki, Nicole Almeida dos Reis, Gustavo Oliveira Fenner, Fernanda Panicio Vizu, Antônio Coimbra de Brum, Mateus Luís Haas, Júlia Victória Grohmann Finger, Maria Virginia Petry, Victória Deecken Becker, Douglas Ribeiro da Silva, Pedro Henrique de Oliveira Hoffmann, Isabele Colla Lazzari Royes, João Renato R. Pinho, Deyvid Amgarten, Erick G. Dorlass, Ana L. Boechat Borges, Fernanda de Mello Malta, Danielle Bruna L. Oliveira, Alessandra Greatti, Robert G. Webster, Richard J. Webby, Clarice Weis Arns, Edison L. Durigon |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 22854 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |