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Volume 24, Number 5—May 2018
Research Letter

Multiple Introductions of Influenza A(H5N8) Virus into Poultry, Egypt, 2017

Ahmed H. Salaheldin, Hatem Salah Abd El-Hamid, Ahmed R. Elbestawy, Jutta Veits, Hafez M. Hafez, Thomas C. Mettenleiter, and Elsayed M. Abdelwhab
Author affiliations: Alexandria University, Al Buhayrah, Egypt (A.H. Salaheldin); Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Insel Riems-Greifswald, Germany (A.H. Salaheldin, J. Veits, T.C. Mettenleiter, E.M. Abdelwhab); Freie-Universität-Berlin, Berlin, Germany (A.H. Salaheldin, H.M. Hafez); Damanhour University, Damanhour, Egypt (H.S. Abd El-Hamid, A.R. Elbestawy)

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Characterization of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N8) viruses of clade 2.3.4.4 from Egypt, 2017. A) Phylogenetic relatedness of the HA gene and schematic representation of potential precursors of different H5N8 viruses. The maximum-likelihood midpoint rooted tree was constructed by using MrBayes (http://mrbayes.sourceforge.net/). Red indicates viruses from this study. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site. B) Putative ancestors of the different gene segments of H5N8 virus

Figure. Characterization of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N8) viruses of clade 2.3.4.4 from Egypt, 2017. A) Phylogenetic relatedness of the HA gene and schematic representation of potential precursors of different H5N8 viruses. The maximum-likelihood midpoint rooted tree was constructed by using MrBayes (http://mrbayes.sourceforge.net/). Red indicates viruses from this study. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site. B) Putative ancestors of the different gene segments of H5N8 viruses from Egypt characterized in this study compared with reference viruses. C) Governorates in Egypt where H5N8 viruses had been reported in domestic birds (circles) and where viruses in birds had been previously reported (stars). Inset shows study location in Egypt. Ck, chicken farm; Dk, duck farm; HA, hemagglutinin; M, matrix; NA, neuraminidase; NP, nucleocapsid protein; NS, nonstructural; PA, polymerase acidic; PB, polymerase basic.

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