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Emerg Infect Dis. 2017 Apr 15;23(4). doi: 10.3201/eid2304.161886. [Epub ahead of print]
Novel Reassortant Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N8) Virus in Zoos, India.
Nagarajan S, Kumar M, Murugkar HV, Tripathi S, Shukla S, Agarwal S, Dubey G, Nagi RS, Singh VP, Tosh C.
Abstract
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N8) viruses were detected in waterfowl at 2 zoos in India in October 2016. Both viruses were different 7:1 reassortants of H5N8 viruses isolated in May 2016 from wild birds in the Russian Federation and China, suggesting virus spread during southward winter migration of birds.
KEYWORDS:
HPAI; India; clade 2.3.4.4; highly pathogenic avian influenza virus; influenza; phylogenetic analysis; subtype H5N8; viruses; waterfowl; zoonoses; zoos
PMID: 28117031 DOI: 10.3201/eid2304.161886
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Novel Reassortant Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N8) Virus in Zoos, India.
Nagarajan S, Kumar M, Murugkar HV, Tripathi S, Shukla S, Agarwal S, Dubey G, Nagi RS, Singh VP, Tosh C.
Abstract
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N8) viruses were detected in waterfowl at 2 zoos in India in October 2016. Both viruses were different 7:1 reassortants of H5N8 viruses isolated in May 2016 from wild birds in the Russian Federation and China, suggesting virus spread during southward winter migration of birds.
KEYWORDS:
HPAI; India; clade 2.3.4.4; highly pathogenic avian influenza virus; influenza; phylogenetic analysis; subtype H5N8; viruses; waterfowl; zoonoses; zoos
PMID: 28117031 DOI: 10.3201/eid2304.161886
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]