Volume 21, Number 5—May 2015
Dispatch
Genetic Characterization of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N8) Virus from Domestic Ducks, England, November 2014
Amanda Hanna
, Jill Banks, Denise A. Marston, Richard J. Ellis, Sharon M. Brookes, and Ian H. Brown
, Jill Banks, Denise A. Marston, Richard J. Ellis, Sharon M. Brookes, and Ian H. Brown
Table 1
Genome sequence comparisons of 3 highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N8) viruses from domestic ducks, England, November 2014*
| Gene segment | Sequence |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| 36038, 36226 | 36038, 36254 | 36226, 36254 | |
| PB2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| PB1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| PA | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| HA | 0 | 2 (S181P, H273Y) | 2 (S181P, H273Y) |
| NP | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NA | 1 (L363I) | 4 (S164P, N166S, K186N, L363I) | 3 (S164P, N166S, K186N) |
| MP | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NS |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| *Sequences compared are A/duck/England/36038/2014, A/duck/England/36226/2014, and A/duck/England/36254/2014. Amino acid residue in parentheses indicate that the number of nucleotide differences correspond to a nonsynonomous change. PB2, polymerase basic 2; PB1, polymerase basic 1;PA, polymerase acidic; HA hemagglutinin; NP, nucleoprotein; NA, neuraminidase; MP, matrix; NS, nonstructural. | |||
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