Intercontinental Movement of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Clade 2.3.4.4 Virus to the United States, 2021
Sarah N. Bevins
1 , Susan A. Shriner
1, James C. Cumbee, Krista E. Dilione, Kelly E. Douglass, Jeremy W. Ellis, Mary Lea Killian, Mia K. Torchetti, and Julianna B. Lenoch
Author affiliations: US Department of Agriculture National Wildlife Research Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (S.N. Bevins, S.A. Shriner); US Department of Agriculture National Wildlife Disease Program, Fort Collins (K.E. Dilione, J.B. Lenoch); US Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services, Columbia, South Carolina, USA (J.C. Cumbee Jr); US Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA (K.E. Douglass); US Department of Agriculture Veterinary Services, Ames, Iowa, USA (M.L. Killian, M.K. Torchetti)
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Figure 1. Maximum-likelihood phylogenic analysis of the hemagglutinin gene segment of the first sequenced set of wild bird isolates of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) clade 2.3.4.4 virus, United States, 2021. Red indicates US wild bird highly pathogenic detections, and blue indicates closest virus detected in Newfoundland, Canada. MAFFT alignment and RAxML trees were generated in Geneious 11.1.5 (https://www.geneious.com) and visualized in FigTree 1.4.1 (https://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk). Scale bar indicates average nucleotide substitutions per site.
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