Volume 20, Number 12—December 2014
Dispatch
Equine Influenza A(H3N8) Virus Isolated from Bactrian Camel, Mongolia
Myagmarsukh Yondon, Batsukh Zayat, Martha I. Nelson, Gary L. Heil, Benjamin D. Anderson, Xudong Lin, Rebecca A. Halpin, Pamela McKenzie, Sarah K. White, David Wentworth, and Gregory C. Gray
Table
Number of specimens collected from camels, by aimag, each month, and result of testing for influenza A virus, Mongolia, January 2012–January 2013*
| Date | Aimag (province) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Töv |
Khentii |
Dundgovi |
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| Positive | Total | Positive | Total | Positive | Total | |||
| 2012 | ||||||||
| January | 0 | 20 | – | – | – | – | ||
| February | – | – | – | – | 0 | 20 | ||
| March | 0 | 20 | – | – | – | – | ||
| April | 0 | 20 | 0 | 20 | – | – | ||
| May | 0 | 20 | – | – | 0 | 20 | ||
| June | 0 | 20 | – | – | 0 | 20 | ||
| July | – | – | 0 | 20 | 0 | 20 | ||
| August | 0 | 20 | – | – | 0 | 20 | ||
| September | 0 | 20 | – | – | 0 | 20 | ||
| October | 0 | 20 | 0 | 20 | – | – | ||
| November | – | – | 0 | 20 | 4 | 20 | ||
| December | 0 | 20 | – | – | 0 | 20 | ||
| 2013 | ||||||||
| January | 2 | 20 | 0 | 20 | – | – | ||
| Total | 2 | 200 | 0 | 100 | 4 | 160 | ||
*Testing was performed by quantitative reverse transcription PCR. A total of 460 specimens were collected across all aimags. – denotes when sampling did not occur because of poor weather or road conditions.
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