TY - JOUR AU - Hassan, Kareem AU - King, Jacqueline AU - El-Kady, Magdy AU - Afifi, Manal AU - Abozeid, Hassanein AU - Pohlmann, Anne AU - Beer, Martin AU - Harder, Timm T1 - Novel Reassortant Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N2) Virus in Broiler Chickens, Egypt T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 1 SP - 129 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We detected a novel reassortant highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N2) virus in 3 poultry farms in Egypt. The virus carried genome segments of a pigeon H9N2 influenza virus detected in 2014, a nucleoprotein segment of contemporary chicken H9N2 viruses from Egypt, and hemagglutinin derived from the 2.3.4.4b H5N8 virus clade. KW - avian influenza virus KW - zoonoses KW - reassortant KW - viruses KW - respiratory infections KW - H5N2 KW - poultry KW - Egypt KW - influenza KW - broiler chickens KW - highly pathogenic avian influenza DO - 10.3201/eid2601.190570 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/1/19-0570_article ER - End of Reference