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Volume 24, Number 6—June 2018
Dispatch

Detection of Low Pathogenicity Influenza A(H7N3) Virus during Duck Mortality Event, Cambodia, 2017

Annika Suttie, Sokhoun Yann, Phalla Y, Sothyra Tum, Yi-Mo Deng, Vibol Hul, Viseth Srey Horm, Ian Barr, Andrew Greenhill, Paul F. Horwood, Kristina Osbjer, Erik A. Karlsson, and Philippe DussartComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (A. Suttie, S. Yann, P. Y, V. Hul, V.S. Horm, E.A. Karlsson, P. Dussart); Federation University, Churchill, Victoria, Australia (A. Suttie, A. Greenhill); National Animal Health and Production Research Institute, Cambodia Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Phnom Penh (S. Tum); World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Y.-M. Deng, I. Barr); James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia (P.F. Horwood); Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Phnom Penh (K. Osbjer)

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Table 2

Genetic risk characteristics of influenza A virus subtype H7N3 isolates, Cambodia*

Gene segment and risk factor
Amino acid change
Isolates in Cambodia
Conclusions†
Reference
PB2
Mammalian host range marker and increased viral pathogenicity
E627K E Avian specificity
(9)
D701N
D
HA
Multibasic cleavage site causing increased pathogenicity Multibasic PEPPKGR/GLF Monobasic (10)
Increased mammalian receptor specificity
Q226L‡ Q Avian specificity
(11)
G228S‡
G
NA
Resistance to NA inhibitor antivirals
H275Y§ H Sensitive to oseltamivir
(12)
E119K¶ E
R292K
R
MP
Resistance to M2 inhibitor antivirals L26F Q Sensitive to M2 inhibitors (13)
V27A R
A30T D
S31N V
G34E G

*HA, hemagglutinin; MP, matrix protein; MP2, matrix protein 2; NA, neuraminidase; PB2, polymerase basic protein 2.
†Receptor binding specificity and antiviral sensitivity is predicted based on sequence information and has not been experimentally confirmed.
‡H3 numbering.
§N1 numbering.
¶N2 numbering.

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