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Volume 29, Number 12—December 2023
Dispatch

Neurotropic Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus in Red Foxes, Northern Germany

Christine BaechleinComments to Author , Sven Kleinschmidt, Dorothee Hartmann, Patricia Kammeyer, Anne Wöhlke, Tobias Warmann, Louise Herms, Bianca Kühl, Andreas Beineke, Peter Wohlsein, Timm Harder, and Martin Runge
Author affiliations: Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety, Braunschweig/Hannover, Germany (C. Baechlein, S. Kleinschmidt, D. Hartmann, P. Kammeyer, A. Wöhlke, T. Warmann, L. Herms, M. Runge); University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Foundation, Hannover, Germany (B. Kühl, A. Beineke, P. Wohlsein); Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany (T. Harder)

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Figure 1

Phylogenetic analyses of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5 sequences of mammals and wild birds, Germany. The maximum-likelihood tree was built with 500 bootstrap iterations. H5 variants included 4 red foxes from Lower Saxony, Germany, their 3 closest relatives according to BLAST (https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi) analyses, and distinct H5 sequences detected in wild birds from northern Germany and in mammalian species from Europe during 2021–2023. Bold text indicates virus variants found in this study. Numbers along branches indicate percentage bootstrap values. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site. H, hemagglutinin.

Figure 1. Phylogenetic analyses of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5 sequences of mammals and wild birds, Germany. The maximum-likelihood tree was built with 500 bootstrap iterations. H5 variants included 4 red foxes from Lower Saxony, Germany, their 3 closest relatives according to BLAST (https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi) analyses, and distinct H5 sequences detected in wild birds from northern Germany and in mammalian species from Europe during 2021–2023. Bold text indicates virus variants found in this study. Numbers along branches indicate percentage bootstrap values. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site. H, hemagglutinin.

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