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Genetic comparison of H5N1 influenza A viruses isolated from chickens in Japan and Korea.
Microbiology and immunology - 1 Jan 2005
Mase Masaji, Kim Jae-Hong, Lee Youn-Jeong, Tsukamoto Kenji, Imada Tadao, Imai Kunitoshi, Yamaguchi Shigeo
Abstract excerpt
Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) caused by H5N1 virus occurred during 2003 to 2004 in Korea and Japan. The H5N1 viruses isolated in both countries were genetically similar at > 99% identity in the nucleotide sequences of all eight RNA segments, indicating that they belong to genotype V and are distinct from HPAI viruses prevalent in southeast Asia that belong to genotype Z. These findings...
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