Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N8) Virus, Cameroon, 2017
Abel Wade, Simon Dickmu Jumbo, Bianca Zecchin, Alice Fusaro, Taiga Taiga, Alice Bianco, Poueme N. Rodrigue, Angela Salomoni, Jean Marc Feussom Kameni, Gianpiero Zamperin, Robert Nenkam, Yacouba Foupouapouognigni, Souley Abdoulkadiri, Yaya Aboubakar, Lidewij Wiersma, Giovanni Cattoli, and Isabella Monne
Author affiliations: Laboratoire National Veterinaire, Yaoundé and Garoua, Cameroon (A. Wade, S. Dickmu Jumbo, P.N. Rodrigue, R. Nenkam, Y. Foupouapouognigni, S. Abdoulkadiri, Y. Aboubakar); Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries, Yaoundé (A. Wade, T. Taiga, J.M. Feussom Kameni); Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Padova, Italy (B. Zecchin, A. Fusaro, A. Bianco, A. Salomoni, G. Zamperin, I. Monne); Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy (L. Wiersma); Animal Production and Health Laboratory, Seibersdorf, Austria (G. Cattoli)
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Figure. Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree of the HA gene of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N8) virus from Cameroon (bold) and reference viruses. Arrows indicate location where Cameroon viruses were obtained. Bootstrap supports >600/1,000 are indicated next to the nodes. Scale bar indicates numbers of nucleotide substitutions per site.
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