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Intracontinental and intercontinental dissemination of Asian H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (clade 2.3.4.4) in the winter of 2014-2015.
Reviews in medical virology - 1 Nov 2015
Saito Takehiko, Tanikawa Taichiro, Uchida Yuko, Takemae Nobuhiro, Kanehira Katsushi, Tsunekuni Ryota
Abstract excerpt
Asian H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAIVs) that possess the clade 2.3.4.4 HA gene have been identified in wild birds and poultry since late 2014 in both Europe and North America (N. America). Clade 2.3.4.4 H5 HPAIVs of the H5N8 subtype have been isolated in both regions, whereas reassortment viruses with NA N1 and N2 subtypes of the North American (N. American). avian lineage have only been...
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