Volume 14, Number 4—April 2008
Dispatch
Reassortant Avian Influenza Virus (H5N1) in Poultry, Nigeria, 2007
Table 2
Clustering of the gene segments of influenza strains in poultry, Nigeria, 2007*
Virus |
HA |
NA |
NS |
MA |
PB2 |
PB1 |
PA |
NP |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A/chicken/Nigeria/641/2006† |
EMA1 |
EMA1 |
EMA1 |
EMA1 |
EMA1 |
EMA1 |
EMA1 |
EMA1 |
A/chicken/Nigeria/1047-62/2006† | EMA1 | EMA2 | EMA1 | EMA2 | EMA2 | EMA1 | EMA2 | EMA1 |
A/chicken/1071-1/Nigeria/2007
A/chicken/1071-4/Nigeria/2007
A/chicken/1071-5/Nigeria/2007
A/chicken/1071-9/Nigeria/2007
A/chicken/1071-10/Nigeria/2007
A/chicken/1071-15/Nigeria/2007
A/chicken/1071-22/Nigeria/2007
A/duck/1071-23/Nigeria/2007
A/chicken/1071-29/Nigeria/2007
A/chicken/1071-30/Nigeria/2007 |
EMA1 |
EMA2 |
EMA1 |
EMA2 |
EMA2 |
EMA2 |
EMA2 |
EMA2 |
A/chicken/1071-3/Nigeria/2007 A/chicken/1071-7/Nigeria/2007 | EMA2 | EMA2 | EMA2 | EMA2 | EMA2 | EMA2 | EMA2 | EMA2 |
*HA, hemagglutinin; NA, neuraminidase; NS, nonstructural; MA; matrix; PB2; polymerase B2; NP, nucleoprotein.
†These strains were analyzed in a previous study (1).
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