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Volume 24, Number 7—July 2018
Dispatch

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N8) Virus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2017

Augustin T. TwabelaComments to Author , Georges M. Tshilenge, Yoshiro Sakoda, Masatoshi Okamatsu, Ezekiel Bushu, Philippe Kone, Lidewij Wiersma, Gianpiero Zamperin, Alessandra Drago, Bianca Zecchin, and Isabella Monne
Author affiliations: Central Veterinary Laboratory of Kinshasa, Kinshasa I/Gombe, Democratic Republic of the Congo (A.T. Twabela, G.M. Tshilenge); Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan (A.T. Twabela, Y. Sakoda, M. Okamatsu); Laboratoire Vétérinaire de Goma, Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo (E. Bushu); Food and Agriculture Organization Emergency Center for Transboundary Animal Disease, Kinshasa I (P. Kone); Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy (L. Wiersma); Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Italy (G. Zamperin, A. Drago, B. Zecchin, I. Monne)

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Details of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N8) viruses isolated from birds, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2017

Date of sample collection Sampling site Isolate GenBank accession no. for hemagglutinin gene
May 14 Tchomia A/duck/ Democratic Republic of the Congo/17RS882-5/2017 MG607416
May 15 Joo A/duck/ Democratic Republic of the Congo/17RS882-29/2017 MG607413
May 14 Mahagi A/duck/ Democratic Republic of the Congo/17RS882-33/2017 MG607414
May 13 Kafe A/duck/ Democratic Republic of the Congo/17RS882-40/2017 MG607415

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