1. 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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Anja Globig, Günter Strebelow, Christoph Staubach, Christian Grund, Elke Starick, Timm C. Harder, Anne Pohlmann, Thomas C. Mettenleiter, Martin Beer, Franz Josef Conraths, and Dirk Höper
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0301 basic medicine ,030106 microbiology ,lcsh:Medicine ,Biology ,medicine.disease_cause ,Article ,Birds ,03 medical and health sciences ,Phylogenetics ,Germany ,Genotype ,Genetic variation ,Influenza, Human ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,Clade ,lcsh:Science ,Epizootic ,Phylogeny ,Multidisciplinary ,lcsh:R ,Swarm behaviour ,Outbreak ,Genetic Variation ,medicine.disease ,Virology ,Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 ,030104 developmental biology ,Influenza A virus ,lcsh:Q ,Seasons ,Reassortant Viruses - Abstract
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.
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- 2018
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