Volume 14, Number 3—March 2008
Dispatch
Mutations in Influenza A Virus (H5N1) and Possible Limited Spread, Turkey, 2006
Ender Altiok*†
, Fulya Taylan*†, Osman Ş. Yenen‡, Gülşah Demirkeser*, Mürvet Bozaci‡, Derya Önel‡, Birsen Akcadag§, A. Selma Iyisan§, Meral Ciblak‡, Emel Bozkaya‡, Sirin Yuksel*, and Selim Badur‡
, Fulya Taylan*†, Osman Ş. Yenen‡, Gülşah Demirkeser*, Mürvet Bozaci‡, Derya Önel‡, Birsen Akcadag§, A. Selma Iyisan§, Meral Ciblak‡, Emel Bozkaya‡, Sirin Yuksel*, and Selim Badur‡Table
Mutations in avian and human influenza A virus (H5N1) isolates from Turkey*
| Isolate | Mutations |
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|---|---|---|---|
| HA | PB2 | M2 | |
| FK† | D158, S227 | E627K, Q447L | I28V, I42T |
| MAK† | D158N, S227N | E627K, R46K, Q447L, N556K | I28V, I42T |
| MYS‡ | D158, S133A, S227 | I28V | |
| SU§ | D158, S227 | E627K | I28V, I42T |
| 13§ | D158, S227 | E627K | I28V, I42T |
| 20§ | D158, S227 | E627K | I28V, I42T |
*HA, hemagglutinin; PB2, RNA polymerase; M2, matrix 2 protein.
†Human isolates from the second outbreak.
‡Chicken isolate from the first outbreak.
§Chicken isolates from the second outbreak.
