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Received: 8 May 2017

Accepted: 15 March 2018

First Online: 2 April 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The sampling was carried out in collaboration with researchers from the Tunisian veterinary research institute as part of a specific surveillance program on avian influenza. A written permission to perform the avian fecal sampling on the sites visited was issued from The Ministry of Agriculture of Tunisia and sampling protocol was reviewed and approved by the local Research Ethics Committee prior to the initiation of the research (Authorisation number: 1213). The authors state the compliance with general rules of research ethics involving animals. We specify that we did not handle the birds.

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