Novel Reassortant Influenza A(H5N8) Viruses in Domestic Ducks, Eastern China
Haibo Wu, Xiaorong Peng, Lihua Xu, Changzhong Jin, Linfang Cheng, Xiangyun Lu, Tiansheng Xie, Hangping Yao, and Nanping Wu
Author affiliations: Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (H. Wu, X. Peng, C. Jin, L. Cheng, X. Lu, T. Xie, H. Yao, N. Wu); Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou (H. Wu, X. Peng, C. Jin, L. Cheng, X. Lu, T. Xie, H. Yao, N. Wu); Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Science, Hangzhou (L. Xu)
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Figure 1. Phylogenetic analysis of A) hemagglutinin (HA) (nucleotide positions 9–1647) and B) neuraminidase (NA) (nucleotide positions 44–1381) genes of novel influenza A(H5N8) viruses isolated from domestic ducks, eastern China, 2013, and other influenza virusesThe tree was created by the using the neighbor-joining method and bootstrapped with 1,000 replicates by using MEGA 5.05 (http://www.megasoftware.net/)Influenza A(H5N8) viruses from China identified in this study are indicated by solid triangles, another influenza A(H5N8) virus from China is indicated by a white triangle, 3 influenza A(H5N8) viruses from South Korea (2014) are indicated by dots, and a novel influenza A(H10N8) virus (2013) that caused human infection is indicated by a diamondScale bars indicate distance units between sequence pairs.
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