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Isolation and Characterization of Potentially Pathogenic H5N2 Influenza Virus from a Chicken in Taiwan in 2008
1 Jun 2010
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During the surveillance of avian influenza, an H5N2 influenza A virus was isolated from a cloacal swab sample of an apparently healthy chicken in Taiwan in October 2008. It was found that the HA of the virus had a pair of dibasic amino acid residues at the cleavage site, which might be a marker of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus. However, the intravenous pathogenicity index of the isolate was 0.89,...
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