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(In Particular Avian Influenza) from Wild Aquatic Birds in North Queensland ResearchOnline@JCU This file is part of the following reference: Hoque, Ahasanul (2011) Risk of spill-over of diseases (in particular avian influenza) from wild aquatic birds in North Queensland. PhD thesis, James Cook University. Access to this file is available from: http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/21582 The author has certified to JCU that they have made a reasonable effort to gain permission and acknowledge the owner of any third party copyright material included in this document. If you believe that this is not the case, please contact [email protected] and quote http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/21582 RISK OF SPILL-OVER OF DISEASES (IN PARTICULAR AVIAN INFLUENZA) FROM WILD AQUATIC BIRDS IN NORTH QUEENSLAND Md. Ahasanul Hoque Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (Bangladesh) MSc in Veterinary Epidemiology (United Kingdom) MACVSc in Veterinary Epidemiology (Australia) A dissertation submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy April 2011 School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences & School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia-4811 i ii State of access declaration I, the undersigned, author of this work, understand that James Cook University will make this thesis available for use within the University Library and, via the Australian Digital Theses network, for use elsewhere. I understand that, as an unpublished work, a thesis has significant protection under the Copyright Act and; I do not wish to place any further restriction on access to this work. Md. Ahasanul Hoque April 2011 iii Statement of sources declaration I declare that this is my own work and has not been submitted in any form for another degree or diploma at any university or other institution of tertiary education. Information derived from the published or unpublished work of others has been acknowledged in the text and a list of references is given. Md. Ahasanul Hoque April 2011 Statement of sources-electronic copy declaration I, the undersigned, and author of this work, declare that the electronic copy of this thesis provided to the James Cook University Library, is an accurate copy of the print thesis submitted, within the limits of the technology available. Md. Ahasanul Hoque April 2011 iv Preface Chapters 2-7 were prepared with the aim of being published in scientific journals. Consequently, some repetition is unavoidable. However, the reference style of the whole document follows the thesis guidelines of James Cook University. Reduction of text, inclusion of an abstract and change of referencing style will be required for submission of each chapter to a journal for publication. Lauren Cook and Gareth Smith followed by Ai Lee Cheam contributed to Chapter 4: Processing field samples for molecular analysis. Daniel Grace along with Ai Lee Cheam optimised and developed the semi-nested Polymerase Chain Reaction technique that was applied to field samples for avian influenza viruses. Stephen Garland tested the level of inhibitors in the field samples for real time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reactions. Graham Burgess and David Blair helped analyse avian influenza viral gene sequence data. Above all, Graham Burgess designed all primers used for molecular analysis for this chapter. Ai Lee Cheam contributed to Chapter 5 by molecular testing for Newcastle disease viruses in field samples. Andrew Greenhill, Robert Hedlefs, Orachun Hayakijkosol, Laurie Reilly and Ai Lee Cheam were predominantly involved with Chapter 6. Andrew initially helped process sick and dead bird tissue samples for bacteriological evaluation and also gave comments on this chapter. Robert helped in serosubtyping of salmonella positive samples with the collaboration of the Queensland Health Pathology Laboratory in Brisbane and also extended his editorial support on this chapter. Orachun contributed by performing post-mortems of bird carcasses followed by histopathological and bacteriological testing on tissues. Laurie provided valuable technical support for the processing of tissues for histological evaluation. Ai Lee Cheam performed molecular testing on tissue samples for avian influenza and Newcastle disease viruses. The whole thesis was supervised by Lee Skerratt, Graham Burgess and Stephen Garland and as such had significant input in the design, execution and analysis of this research project, as well as reviewing the individual chapters of this thesis. v Acknowledgements This research project would not have been successful without support and assistance from a number of people and I sincerely thank them. Lee Skerratt, Graham Burgess and Stephen Garland provided excellent supervision and support for challenging bi-directional field and laboratory studies on wild bird pathogens and then writing this document. Lee helped maintain my enthusiasm and energy to work on the epidemiology of free flying bird pathogens. He was very encouraging and provided great support throughout the whole period. Consequently, I achieved membership of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists and published some articles, outside of my PhD topic, during my PhD tenure. He also looked after my family’s welfare issues. Thank you Lee for your all out cooperation! Graham gave me a real insight into molecular epidemiology of wild bird pathogens. He never tired of answering my relevant and irrelevant questions. I spent a significant amount of time with him in front of the computer to analyse sequencing data. I am just amazed at his vast and resourceful knowledge about virology. His constructive criticism greatly helped me shape my study and life. Moreover, he always behaved as a father and friend to me. I love him very much! I found Stephen Garland was a very effective and sincere mentor. He played a role like my older brother! He made me comfortable with the sero-molecular tasks in the laboratory. I improved my scientific writings with his regular and untiring supervision. Moreover, I shared my personal difficulties and emotions with him very often! Thank you Stephen for everything! I am very grateful to Ai Lee Cheam, Lauren Cook, Orachun Hayakijkosol, Gareth Smith, Desniwaty Karo-Karo, Daniel Grace and Anthony Baker who provided their support in field or lab work. This research would not have been completed without their sincere and active involvement. I would like to give special thanks to Bob Flemming (Director, Billabong Sanctuary) along with his property manager, as well as all of the rangers for their cooperation. Bob allowed me to use his property to sample wild birds for this study. The manager and rangers occasionally helped bait our traps and collected sick and dead birds for the passive disease surveillance program. I am very appreciative of Steve Pilla and his family for their untiring support and allowing me to sample wild birds on their property (Green Acres Lagoon, Cromarty). Steve happily baited and closed my traps when necessary for two years which was extra-ordinary and an incredible vi help for me capture and then sample sufficient numbers of wild birds. I will never forget this lovely family! I would like to give my sincere thanks to David Roshier and his team who supported sampling and providing samples of wild birds from Cape York. Samples from this site were very valuable for which we were able to check the spatial distribution of avian influenza viruses (in particular) in north Queensland. I also extend my thanks to staff members (particularly, Dan Hogarth) of Biosecurity Queensland, a service of the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation who helped sample some wild birds on the Atherton Tableland. These samples were also valuable to determine the spatial distribution of AIVs in north Queensland. David Blair, my assigned research mentor, always encouraged me through the length of my project. I received some crucial help from David in analysing avian influenza viral sequence. He also commented on my concluding chapter. Bruce Corney facilitated opportunities for me to get training on avian influenza molecular techniques at his lab in Brisbane and contributed his important comments on the sero-epidemiology chapter. I also received necessary training on AI serology at the Tropical and Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory, Oonoonba and Animal Disease Surveillance laboratory, Toowoomba with the assistance of Elizabeth Houston (Toowoomba), Glenn Edmunds and Robert Hedlefs (Oonoonba). Robert also extended his support in commenting on my dead bird, Newcastle disease and concluding chapters. I am very thankful to Janice Smith who supplied some of the reagents for AI serological testing, chicken eggs for culturing viruses and much needed suggestions on serological techniques all through. I would like to thank Fazlul Karim (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) who helped produce a map of north Queensland for my study. I am very grateful to Rae Wiseman for her language and editing support in the writing of my thesis. I thank the discipline technicians and office and academic staff at the School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences and School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences who helped me in different ways during my study. My special thanks to the late Phil Summers who provided sincere advice for my study. He was the most responsible person I met in Australia. vii Numerous post-graduate and undergraduate students helped me in different aspects and at different stages of this research. Some of them were Paresh Dewan, Himel Chakma, Apru Marma, Charlene Cheam and Odwell Muzari. I thank my colleagues at work for their mental and qualified research support. They include Lisa Elliot, Kelly Hogston, Alanna Cooper, Ana Cano-Gomez, Natasha Williams, Rusaini, Anthony Baker and Orachun Hayakijkosol with whom I shared an office. I received enormous support from the International Student Centre at James Cook University during my stay in Australia. A big thank to Alex Salvador and Katherine Elliot who took the trouble to ensure I was doing fine with my studies and welfare. Very special thanks to two Australian families (Anne’s and Peter’s) who gave me mental, welfare and neighbour-hood support.
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