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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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Table

Hemagglutination inhibition titers of North American and Eurasian lineage influenza A (H7) viruses from wild birds, poultry, and humans*

Antigen
 Virus and titer
Reference CN/444 CN/504 MX/7218 GS/NE TK/VA NY/107 TK/MN NL/219 DK/VN
A/Canada/RV444/2004 H7N3 80 320 80 80 80 80 80 160 10
A/Canada/RV504/2004 H7N3 160 320 160 160 80 80 160 160 20
A/Mexico/INDRE7218/2012 H7N3 160 320 160 160 80 80 160 160 20
A/GS/Nebraska/17097–4/2011 H7N9 160 320 160 160 80 160 80 160 20
A/TK/Virginia/4529/2002 H7N2 160 320 160 160 320 1,280 20 80 20
A/New York/107/2003 H7N2 160 320 80 160 160 160 10 80 20
A/TK/Minnesota/0141354/2009 H7N9 40 80 40 80 20 20 80 40 5
A/Netherlands/219/2003 H7N7 20 40 10 40 20 5 40 160 10
A/DK/Vietnam/NCVD-197/2009 H7N3 80 160 80 20 5 10 20 40 80
Test
A/Canada/RV444/2004 x PR8 (H7N3) 160 320 80 160 80 80 80 160 20
A/GF/Nebraska/17096–1/2011 (H7N9) 320 640 320 640 160 320 640 320 40
A/CK/Arkansas/10/2008 (H7N3) 160 320 80 160 80 80 320 80 20

*Homologous titers of reference antigen to serum samples are indicated in boldface. CN, Canada; MX, Mexico; GS, goose; TK, turkey; NY, New York; NL, The Netherlands; INDRE, Institute for Epidemiologic Diagnosis and Reference; DK, duck; GF, guinea fowl; CK, chicken.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

2Deceased.

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