Novel Reassortant Avian Influenza A(H3N8) Virus Isolated from a Wild Bird in Jiangxi, China

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Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Nov 14;8(46). pii: e01163-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01163-19. Novel Reassortant Avian Influenza A(H3N8) Virus Isolated from a Wild Bird in Jiangxi, China.

Li R^#1, Zhang T^#2,3, Xu J⁴, Chang J⁵, Xu B^6,3.
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1 MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom. 2 Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modelling, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. 3 Centre for Healthy Cities, Institute for China Sustainable Urbanization, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. 4 School of Geography and Environmental Science, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Poyang Lake Wetland and Watershed Research, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China. 5 College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China changjianyu@cau.edu.cn bingxu@tsinghua.edu.cn. 6 Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modelling, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China changjianyu@cau.edu.cn bingxu@tsinghua.edu.cn. # Contributed equally

Abstract

Here, we report the detection of a reassortant avian influenza A(H3N8) virus isolated from a wild bird in Poyang Lake, Jiangxi, China, in 2014. Phylogenetic analyses indicated that this virus is most likely derived from the Eurasian-origin H3Ny and HxN8 viruses and two strains endemic to China, namely, H5N1 and H5N6.
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PMID: 31727709 DOI: 10.1128/MRA.01163-19
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