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‡
Author affiliations: *Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, Athens, Georgia, USA; †National Veterinary Services Laboratories, Ames, Iowa, USA; ‡Veterinary Laboratories Agency–Weybridge, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey, United Kingdom; §Ministerio de Agricultura, Santiago, Chile
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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 |
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