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Volume 11, Number 5—May 2005
Dispatch

Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Influenza Virus in Smuggled Thai Eagles, Belgium

Steven Van Borm*Comments to Author , Isabelle Thomas†, Germaine Hanquet†, Bénédicte Lambrecht*, Marc Boschmans*, Gérald Dupont†, Mireille Decaestecker*, René Snacken†, and Thierry van den Berg*
Author affiliations: *Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre, Brussels, Belgium; †Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium

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Figure 2

Neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree (rooted to A/turkey/England/50-92/1991) based on the alignment of a 654-bp fragment of the hemagglutinin gene of A/crested eagle/Belgium/2004 (bold italic), including the cleaving site. Bootstrap values >50 (1,000 replicates) are indicated near the branches. The Z cluster refers to Li et al. (10).

Figure 2. . Neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree (rooted to A/turkey/England/50-92/1991) based on the alignment of a 654-bp fragment of the hemagglutinin gene of A/crested eagle/Belgium/2004 (bold italic), including the cleaving site. Bootstrap values >50 (1,000 replicates) are indicated near the branches. The Z cluster refers to Li et al. (10).

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