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Multiple introductions of reassorted highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (H5N8) clade 2.3.4.4b causing outbreaks in wild birds and poultry in Egypt.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2018
Yehia Nahed, Naguib Mahmoud M, Li Ruiyun, Hagag Naglaa, El-Husseiny Mohamed, Mosaad Zainab, Nour Ahmed, Rabea Neveen, Hasan Wafaa M, Hassan Mohamed K, Harder Timm, Arafa Abdel-Satar A
Abstract excerpt
Recently, an increased incidence of outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N8 in poultry linked to infected migratory birds has been reported from different European, Asian and African countries. In Egypt, incursion of HPAI H5N8 virus of clade 2.3.4.4b has been recently registered. Full genomic characterization of 3 virus isolates from wild birds and poultry (backyard and commercial farm sectors)...
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