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Spillover of H5 influenza viruses to vampire bats at the marine-terrestrial interface
I-Ting TU (1,2), Christina LYNGGAARD (3), Lorin ADAMS (4,5), Sarah K WALSH (2), Hanting CHEN (2), Savitha RAVEENDRAN (2), Matthew L TURNBULL (2), Megan E GRIFFITHS (1,2), Rita RIBEIRO (1,2), Jocelyn G PÉREZ (1,2), William Valderrama BAZAN (6,7), Carlos TELLO (7), Carlos ZARIQUIEY (7,12), Kristhie Pillaca RODRIGUEZ (7,13), Marco RISCO (7), Illariy Quintero MAMANI (7), Wendi CHÁVEZ (7), Roselvira Zuniga VILLAFUERTE (7), Joaquin Clavijo MANUTTUPA (7), Jean Pierre CASTRO NAMUCHE (7), Andres MOREIRA-SOTO (8), Jan Felix DREXLER (8), Gustavo DELHON (9), Susana CÁRDENAS-ALAYZA (10,11), Massimo PALMARINI (2,14), Kristine BOHMANN (3), Ruth HARVEY (4), Christina FAUST (1), Ed HUTCHINSON (2), Pablo R MURCIA (2), Daniel G STREICKER (1,2), 1: School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow; Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK;
2: MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research; Glasgow, G61 1QH, UK;
3: Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen; Copenhagen, Denmark;
4: Worldwide Influenza Centre, The Francis Crick Institute; London, NW1 1AT, UK;
5: Royal Veterinary College; London, NW1 0TU, UK;
6: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia; Lima, Perú;
7: Asociación para el Desarrollo y Conservación de los Recursos Naturales (ILLARIY); Lima, Perú;
8: Charité Universitätsmedizin; Berlin, 10117, Germany;
9: University of Nebraska-Lincoln; NE, 68588 USA;
10: Centro para la Sostenibilidad Ambiental, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; Lima, Perú;
11: Facultad de Ciencias e Ingeniería, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; Lima, Perú;
12: Programa de Maestría en Salud Pública y Salud Global. Facultad de Salud Pública y Administración. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; Lima, Perú;
13: Centro de ornitología y biodiversidad (CORBIDI), División de Mastozoología; Lima, Perú;
14: Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center; Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Advancing One Health Solutions to Antimicrobial Resistance: Outcomes from Canada's Genomics Research and Development Initiative
Rahat ZAHEER (1,3), AMR-One Health Team GRDI (3), Catherine CARRILLO (2,3), Tim MCALLISTER (1,3), 1: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada;
2: Canadian Food Inspection Agency;
3: Genomics Research and Development Initiative for Antimicrobial Resistance - One Health (GRDI AMR-OH) Government of Canada
One Health distribution of clinically relevant antimicrobial-resistant bacteria across humans, animals and the environment in rural Côte d'Ivoire: First results from a One Health cohort
Alexandra BAHR (1), Dennis KARNATZ (1), Phillip LÜBCKE (1), Lena-Sophie SWIATEK (1), Oby WAYORO (2,3,4), Pacôme MONEMO (3,4), Léonce KOUADIO (5,6,7), Anne Mutuo KIMEU (1), Franziska STOEK (2), Moritz JOCHUM (5), Kathrin NOWAK (2), Filipe DIAS (2), Jasmin SCHLOTTERBECK (5), Simon KRÜECKEMEIER (5), Vincent ACHI (3,4), Fabian H. LEENDERTZ (5), Fee ZIMMERMANN (2), Katharina SCHAUFLER (1), 1: Department of Epidemiology and Ecology of Antimicrobial Resistance, Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Greifswald, Germany;
2: Research Group of One Health Surveillance, Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Greifswald, Germany;
3: Centre Hospitalier et Universitaire (CHU) de Bouaké, Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire;
4: Université Alassane Ouattara de Bouaké, Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire;
5: Department of Ecology and Emergence of Zoonotic Diseases, Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Greifswald, Germany;
6: Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques (CSRS), Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire;
7: Université Peleforo GON COULIBALY (UPGC) - Korhogo-Côte d'Ivoire
A wide diversity of viruses detected in African mammals involved in the wild meat supply chain
Mare GERAERTS (1,2), Laura N. CUYPERS (1,3), Sophie GOMBEER (3,4), Casimir NEBESSE (5), Fanny KRATZ (6), Douglas AKAIBE (5), Dudu AKAIBE (5), Pascal BAELO (5), Paola BURELLI (3), Anne-Lise CHABERT (7), Léa FOURCHAULT (3), Philippe GAUBERT (8,9), Guy-Crispin GEMBU (5), Léa JOFFRIN (2), Anne LAUDISOIT (2,10), Nicolas LAURENT (3,11), Herwig LEIRS (2), Claude MANDE (5), Joachim MARIËN (1,2), Steve NGOY (5), Brigitte SEGERS (3), Nathalie SMITZ (6), Sanne TERRYN (12), Jana TĚŠÍKOVÁ (2), Samuel VANDEN ABEELE (3), Ann VANDERHEYDEN (3), Rianne VAN VREDENDAAL (2), Erik VERHEYEN (2,3), Sophie GRYSEELS (2,3), 1: Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium;
2: Evolutionary Ecology group, Department Biology, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium;
3: OD Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium;
4: Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland;
5: Centre de Surveillance de la Biodiversité (CSB), University of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo;
6: Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium;
7: School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA, Australia;
8: Centre de Recherche sur la Biodiversité et l'Environnement (CRBE), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, Toulouse INP, Université Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier (UT3), Toulouse, France;
9: CIIMAR/CIMAR, Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros Do Porto de Leixões, Avenida General Norton de Matos s/n, 4450-208 Matosinhos, Portugal;
10: Nature.Health.Global 321 Route 59, Unit 94, Tallman, NY 10982, USA;
11: Department of Environmental Sciences, Open Universiteit, Heerlen, The Netherlands;
12: Sciencano, Brussels, Belgium
A functionally extinct SARS-CoV-2 lineage persists and evolves in white-tailed deer, independently generating Omicron-defining mutations with human spillback potential
Santhamani RAMASAMY (1), Yoshitha JALADANKI (1), Jobin KATTOOR (1), Aniket NAIK (1), Ariel ENDLICH-FRAZIER (2), Michael LETKO (2), Lindsey LABELLA (1), Vijayasri HARI (1), Jason BOULANGER (3), Nathan KOTSCHWAR (3), Christopher GRIFFIN (4), Xavier DIDELOT (5), Peter HUDSON (6), Kurt VANDEGRIFT (6), Suresh KUCHIPUDI (1), 1: Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, USA;
2: Paul G. Allen School for Global Health, Washington State University, Pullman, USA.;
3: White Buffalo Inc., New York, USA;
4: Applied Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA.;
5: Department of Statistics and School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.;
6: Department of Biology, Eberly College of Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
From Evidence to Action: A 30-Year Synthesis of CGIAR One Health Implementation Models for Scaling in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Hung NGUYEN VIET, International Livestock Research Institute, Vietnam
From Salmonella Strathcona outbreak traceback investigations to environmental surveillance of agricultural water: integrating epidemiology, genomics and passive sampling
Laura BORTOLAMI (1), Sara PETRIN (1), Stefano DI NOLA (2,3), Eleonora CHELLI (2), Fabrizio LAZZARA (2), Valentina CAMBIOTTI (2), Daniela ZORA (4), Giuseppe SMECCA (5), Carmelo CAMPISI (6), Paolo GERVASO (6), Alessandra STANCANELLI (7), Giuseppe CASCONE (7), Valeria GARGANO (7), Antonina ZIMMARDI (7), Giovanni BARONE (5), Maurizio MEZZASALMA (5), Lisa BARCO (1), 1: Italian National Reference Centre for Salmonellosis, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Padova, Italy;
2: Ministry of Health, Directorate-General for Hygiene and Food Safety, Rome, Italy;
3: Unit of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health, Department of Cardiac Thoracic Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy;
4: Department for Health Activities and Epidemiological Observatory, Regional Department of Health, Sicilian Region, Palermo, Italy;
5: Department of Prevention, Ragusa Local Health Authority, Ragusa, Italy;
6: Department of Prevention, Caltanissetta Local Health Authority, Caltanissetta, Italy;
7: Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sicilia "A. Mirri", Palermo, Italy