Pathogenicity and genetic characterisation of a novel reassortant, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N6 virus isolated in Korea, 2017.

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Pathogenicity and genetic characterisation of a novel reassortant, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N6 virus isolated in Korea, 2017.

Euro Surveill. 2018 Feb;23(7):

Authors: Kim YI, Si YJ, Kwon HI, Kim EH, Park SJ, Robles NJ, Nguyen HD, Yu MA, Yu KM, Lee YJ, Lee MH, Choi YK

Abstract
We investigated influenza A(H5N6) viruses from migratory birds in Chungnam and Gyeonggi Provinces, South Korea following a reported die-off of poultry in nearby provinces in November 2017. Genetic analysis and virulence studies in chickens and ducks identified our isolate from December 2017 as a novel highly pathogenic avian influenza virus. It resulted from reassortment between the highly virulent H5N8 strain from Korea with the N6 gene from a low-pathogenic H3N6 virus from the Netherlands.

PMID: 29463346 [PubMed - in process]

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