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Volume 19, Number 9—September 2013
Dispatch

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H7N3) Virus in Poultry Workers, Mexico, 2012

Irma Lopez-Martinez1, Amanda Balish1, Gisela Barrera-Badillo, Joyce Jones, Tatiana E. Nuñez-García, Yunho Jang, Rodrigo Aparicio-Antonio, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Jessica A. Belser, José E. Ramirez-Gonzalez, Janice C. Pedersen, Joanna Ortiz-Alcantara, Elizabeth Gonzalez-Duran, Bo Shu, Shannon L. Emery, Mee K. Poh, Gustavo Reyes-Teran, Joel A. Vazquez-Perez, Santiago Avila-Rios, Timothy Uyeki, Stephen Lindstrom, Julie Villanueva, Jerome Tokars, Cuitláhuac Ruiz-Matus, Jesus F. Gonzalez-Roldan, Beverly Schmitt, Alexander Klimov2, Nancy Cox, Pablo Kuri-Morales, C. Todd DavisComments to Author , and José Alberto Diaz-Quiñonez
Author affiliations: Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencia Epidemiológicos, Mexico City, Mexico (I. Lopez-Martinez, G. Barrera-Badillo, T.E. Nuñez-García, R. Aparicio-Antonio, J.E. Ramirez-Gonzalez, J. Ortiz-Alcantara, E. Gonzalez-Duran, J.A. Diaz-Quiñonez); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (A. Balish, J. Jones, Y. Jang, E. Azziz-Baumgartner, J.A. Belser, B. Shu, S.L. Emery, M.K. Poh, T. Uyeki, S. Lindstrom, J. Villanueva, J. Tokars, A. Klimov, N. Cox, C.T. Davis); US Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, USA (J.C. Pedersen, B. Schmitt); Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Mexico City (G. Reyes-Teran, J.A. Vazquez-Perez, S. Avila-Rios); Dirección General de Epidemiología, Mexico City (C. Ruiz-Matus, J.F. Gonzalez-Roldan); Subsecretaría de Prevención y Promoción de la Salud, Mexico City (P. Kuri-Morales)

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Figure 1

Phylogenetic trees A) of hemagglutinin (HA) and B) neuraminidase (NA) genes of highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H7N3) virus isolated from a poultry worker with conjunctivitis in Jalisco State, Mexico, July 2012, and other influenza viruses. Reassortant vaccine candidates are shown with a V, and hemagglutinin inhibition (HI) reference viruses used in HI tests are shown with an R in the HA tree. Arrows indicate strain names with V and R. Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H7N3) viruses from M

Figure 1. . Phylogenetic trees A) of hemagglutinin (HA) and B) neuraminidase (NA) genes of highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H7N3) virus isolated from a poultry worker with conjunctivitis in Jalisco State, Mexico, July 2012, and other influenza viruses. Reassortant vaccine candidates are shown with a V, and hemagglutinin inhibition (HI) reference viruses used in HI tests are shown with an R in the HA tree. Arrows indicate strain names with V and R. Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H7N3) viruses from Mexico are indicated in boldface. Trees were midpoint rooted with other North American-lineage H7 HA and N3 NA gene sequences, and subtrees containing ancestral and related viruses were produced. Bootstrap values >60 are shown above or below branches in each tree. *Viruses detected in 2011 or 2012. Scale bars indicate nucleotide substitutions per site.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

2Deceased.

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