Volume 10, Number 4—April 2004
Research
Recombination Resulting in Virulence Shift in Avian Influenza Outbreak, Chile
David L. Suarez*
, Dennis A. Senne†, Jill Banks‡, Ian H. Brown‡, Steve C. Essen‡, Chang-Won Lee* , Ruth J. Manvell‡, Christian Mathieu-Benson§, Valentine Moreno§, Janice C. Pedersen†, Brundaban Panigrahy†, Herman Rojas§, Eric Spackman*, and Dennis J. Alexander‡
, Dennis A. Senne†, Jill Banks‡, Ian H. Brown‡, Steve C. Essen‡, Chang-Won Lee* , Ruth J. Manvell‡, Christian Mathieu-Benson§, Valentine Moreno§, Janice C. Pedersen†, Brundaban Panigrahy†, Herman Rojas§, Eric Spackman*, and Dennis J. Alexander‡Table
Comparison of individual gene segments of A/chicken/Chile/176822/02 with influenza viral genes from GenBank with the highest sequence similarity
| Gene | Nucleotide similarity | % | Amino acid similarity | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PB2 |
Swine/NC/98225/01 |
82.2 |
Shorebird/DE/9/96 |
97.9 |
| PB1 |
Swine/Ontario/01911-1/99 |
93.6 |
Gull/MD/704/77 |
98.7 |
| PA |
Equine/London/1416/73 |
87.4 |
TK/MN/833/80 |
98.3 |
| H7 |
Chicken/NY/13142-5/94 |
82.1 |
Seal/MA/1/80 |
90.7 |
| NP |
Equine/London/1416/73 |
90.0 |
Swine/Ontario/01911-1/99 |
98.4 |
| N3 |
Turkey/Oregon/71 |
86.5 |
Turkey/Oregon/71 |
93.4 |
| Matrix, M1 |
Turkey/Oregon/71 |
96.3 |
Many Isolates |
100.0 |
| M2 |
Many Isolates |
99.0 |
||
| NS, NS1 |
Turkey/Canada/63 |
91.2 |
Turkey/England/50-92/91 |
98.3 |
| NS2 | Chicken/Mexico/31381-1/94 | 95.8 |
