Sub-Saharan Africa and Eurasia Ancestry of Reassortant Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N8) Virus, Europe, December 2019

Authors :: Ismaila Shittu
Calogero Terregino
Francesco Bonfante
Krzysztof Śmietanka
Alice Fusaro
Edyta Świętoń
Bianca Zecchin
Tony M. Joannis
Krzysztof Niemczuk
Source :: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 26, Iss 7, Pp 1557-1561 (2020)
Publication Year :: 2020
Abstract: We report detection of a highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N8) clade 2.3.4.4b virus in Europe. This virus was generated by reassortment between H5N8 subtype virus from sub-Saharan Africa and low pathogenicity avian influenza viruses from Eurasia.

Subjects :: Microbiology (medical)
highly pathogenic influenza A(H5N8) virus
sub-Saharan Africa
Sub saharan
animal structures
Epidemiology
Highly pathogenic
viruses
030231 tropical medicine
Reassortment
lcsh:Medicine
reassortant viruses
Biology
medicine.disease_cause
phylogeny
Virus
influenza virus
lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases
subtype
03 medical and health sciences
highly pathogenic influenza A (H5N8) virus
respiratory infections
0302 clinical medicine
Phylogenetics
Reassortant Viruses
parasitic diseases
Sub-Saharan Africa and Eurasia Ancestry of Reassortant Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N8) Virus, Europe, December 2019
medicine
Animals
lcsh:RC109-216
Influenza A Virus, H5N8 Subtype
030212 general & internal medicine
Clade
Africa South of the Sahara
clade 2.3.4.4b
ancestry
lcsh:R
Dispatch
Virology
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1
Europe
Infectious Diseases
Influenza in Birds
Eurasia
influenza

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