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Volume 17, Number 6—June 2011
Dispatch

Novel Reassortant Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N5) Viruses in Domestic Ducks, China

Min Gu, Wenbo Liu, Yongzhong Cao, Daxin Peng, Xiaobo Wang, Hongquan Wan, Guo Zhao, Quangang Xu, Wei Zhang, Qingqing Song, Yanfang Li, and Xiufan LiuComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Author affiliation: Yangzhou University College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou, People’s Republic of China

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Figure 2

Putative genomic compositions of the novel avian influenza (H5N5) viruses isolated from domestic ducks in the People’s Republic of China, December 2008–January 2009, with their possible donors. The 8 gene segments (from top to bottom) in each virus are polymerase basic protein 2, polymerase basic protein 1, polymerase acidic protein, hemagglutinin (HA), nucleocapsid protein, neuraminidase, matrix protein, and nonstructural protein. Each color indicates a separate virus background. Dashed lines i

Figure 2. Putative genomic compositions of the novel avian influenza (H5N5) viruses isolated from domestic ducks in the People’s Republic of China, December 2008–January 2009, with their possible donors. The 8 gene segments (from top to bottom) in each virus are polymerase basic protein 2, polymerase basic protein 1, polymerase acidic protein, hemagglutinin (HA), nucleocapsid protein, neuraminidase, matrix protein, and nonstructural protein. Each color indicates a separate virus background. Dashed lines indicate high sequence identity and suggest a second possibility that the 2 influenza (H5N5) viruses could be donors of some gene segments for each other. 108, A/duck/eastern China/108/2008 (H5N1); 909, A/duck/eastern China/909/2009 (H5N1); 008, A/duck/eastern China/008/2008 (H5N5); 031, A/duck/eastern China/031/2009 (H5N5); 013, A/duck/Yangzhou/013/2008 (H6N5). H?N5 denotes possible parental viruses of unidentified HA subtype but N5 subtype. The simplified schematic illustration is based on nucleotide-distance comparison and phylogenetic analysis.

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