Swarm incursions of reassortants of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus strains H5N8 and H5N5, clade 2.3.4.4b, Germany, winter 2016/17

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Sci Rep. 2018 Jan 8;8(1):15. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-16936-8.
[h=1]Swarm incursions of reassortants of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus strains H5N8 and H5N5, clade 2.3.4.4b, Germany, winter 2016/17.[/h] Pohlmann A[SUP]1[/SUP], Starick E[SUP]1[/SUP], Grund C[SUP]1[/SUP], H?per D[SUP]1[/SUP], Strebelow G[SUP]1[/SUP], Globig A[SUP]2[/SUP], Staubach C[SUP]2[/SUP], Conraths FJ[SUP]2[/SUP], Mettenleiter TC[SUP]3[/SUP], Harder T[SUP]4[/SUP], Beer M[SUP]1[/SUP].
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[h=3]Abstract[/h] The outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5Nx viruses in winter 2016/2017 was the most severe HPAI epizootic ever reported in Germany. The H5N8 and H5N5 viruses detected in birds in Germany in 2016/2017 represent a reassortant swarm of at least five distinct genotypes, which carried closely related HA segments derived from clade 2.3.4.4b. The genotypes of these viruses and their spatio-temporal distribution indicated a unique situation with multiple independent entries of HPAIV into Germany.


PMID: 29311555 PMCID: PMC5758748 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-16936-8
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