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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

Edyta Świętoń, Alice FusaroComments to Author , Ismaila Shittu, Krzysztof Niemczuk, Bianca Zecchin, Tony Joannis, Francesco Bonfante, Krzysztof Śmietanka, and Calogero Terregino
Author affiliations: National Veterinary Research Institute, Puławy, Poland (E. Świętoń, K. Niemczuk, K. Śmietanka); Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Italy (A. Fusaro, B. Zecchin, F. Bonfante, C. Terregino); National Veterinary Research Institute, Vom, Nigeria (I. Shittu, T. Joannis)

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Table

Nucleotide identity of A/turkey/Poland/23/2019(H5N8) and A/guinea_fowl/Nigeria/OG-GF11T_19VIR8424–7/2019 influenza virus gene segments with the most similar sequences available in GenBank and EpiFlu*

Gene segment Virus 1 Virus 2 Nucleotide identity, %
PB2 H5N8 Poland 2019† H5N8 Nigeria 2019‡ 98.9
H5N8 Nigeria 2019
 H5N8 South Africa 2018§
 98.7
PB1 H5N8 Poland 2019 H3N8 Kurgan 2018¶ 99.1
H5N8 Poland 2019 H5N8 Nigeria 2019 94.7
H5N8 Nigeria 2019
 H5N8 South Africa 2018
 99.2
PA H5N8 Poland 2019 H5N8 Nigeria 2019 98.9
H5N8 Nigeria 2019
 H5N8 South Africa 2018
 99.2
HA H5N8 Poland 2019 H5N8 Nigeria 2019 99.1
H5N8 Nigeria 2019
 H5N8 South Africa 2018
 98.7
NP H5N8 Poland 2019 H3N8 Chany 2018# 98.5
H5N8 Poland 2019 H5N8 Nigeria 2019 92.8
H5N8 Nigeria 2019
 H5N8 South Africa 2018
 98.9
NA H5N8 Poland 2019 H5N8 Nigeria 2019 98.8
H5N8 Nigeria 2019
 H5N8 South Africa 2018
 98.9
M H5N8 Poland 2019 H5N8 Nigeria 2019 99.5
H5N8 Nigeria 2019
 H5N8 South Africa 2018
 99.4
NS H5N8 Poland 2019 H5N8 Nigeria 2019 99.0
H5N8 Nigeria 2019 H5N8 South Africa 2018 99.2

*HA, hemagglutinin; M, matrix protein; NA, neuraminidase; NP, nucleoprotein; NS, nonstructural protein; PA, polymerase acidic protein; PB1, polymerase basic protein 1; PB2, polymerase basic protein 2.
†A/turkey/Poland/23/2019(H5N8).
‡A/guinea_fowl/Nigeria/OG-GF11T_19VIR8424–7/2019(H5N8).
§A/chicken/South Africa/499723/2018(H5N8).
¶A/green sandpiper/Kurgan/1043/2018(H3N8).
#A/gadwall/Chany/893/2018(H3N8).

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