Volume 26, Number 7—July 2020
Dispatch
Sub-Saharan Africa and Eurasia Ancestry of Reassortant Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N8) Virus, Europe, December 2019
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![Reassortment events between highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N8 viruses from South Africa (2017), HPAI H5N8 viruses from West-Central Africa (2017); and LPAI viruses from Eurasia giving rise to A/guinea_fowl/Nigeria/OG-GF11T_19VIR8424–7/2019(H5N8) (Nigeria 2019) and A/turkey/Poland/23/2019(H5N8) (Poland 2019). Each gene segment is represented by a bar of different length, from top to bottom: polymerase basic protein 2 (PB2), polymerase basic protein 1 (PB1), polymerase acidic protein (P](/eid/images/20-0165-F2.jpg)
Figure 2. Reassortment events between highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N8 viruses from South Africa (2017), HPAI H5N8 viruses from West-Central Africa (2017); and LPAI viruses from Eurasia giving rise to A/guinea_fowl/Nigeria/OG-GF11T_19VIR8424–7/2019(H5N8) (Nigeria 2019) and A/turkey/Poland/23/2019(H5N8) (Poland 2019). Each gene segment is represented by a bar of different length, from top to bottom: polymerase basic protein 2 (PB2), polymerase basic protein 1 (PB1), polymerase acidic protein (PA), hemagglutinin (HA), nucleoprotein (NP), neuraminidase (NA), matrix protein (M), and nonstructural protein (NS). Each color represents a different viral origin: blue, H5N8 South Africa (2017); yellow, H5N8 West-Central Africa (2017); purple, Eurasian LPAI viruses. LPAI, low pathogenicity avian influenza virus.