Possible avian influenza (H5N1) from migratory bird, Egypt [5]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1120-1121

  Saad, Magdi D ^a   Ahmed, Lu'ay S ^b   Gamal Eldein, Mohamed A ^b   Fouda, Mohamed K ^c   Khalil, Fouda M ^b   Yingst, Samuel L ^a   Parker, Michael A ^a   Montevillel, Marshall R ^a  

^a US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

^b Ministry of Environment   (Egypt)

^c Box 5000 ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMAGGLUTININ; RNA;

AVIAN INFLUENZA; BIRD; EGYPT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLE; VIRUS STRAIN;

EID: 34447251688     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1307.061222     Document Type: Letter

References (9)

1. Alexander DJ. A review of avian influenza in different bird species. Vet Microbiol. 2000;74:3-13.
2. Munster VJ, Wallensten A, Baas C, Rimmelzwaan GF, Schutten M, Olsen B, et al. Mallards and highly pathogenic avian influenza ancestral viruses, northern Europe. Emerg Infect Dis. 2005;11:1545-51.
3. Sturm-Ramirez KM, Ellis T, Bousfield B, Bissett L, Dyrting K, Rehg JE, et al. Re-emerging H5N1 influenza viruses in Hong Kong in 2002 are highly pathogenic to ducks. J Virol. 2004;78:4892-901.
4. Normile D. Avian influenza. Evidence points to migratory birds in H5N1 spread. Science. 2006;311:1225.
5. Yingst SL, Saad MD, Felt SA. Qinghai-like H5N1 from domestic cats, northern Iraq. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006;12:1295-7.
6. Gilsdorf A, Boxall N, Gasimov V, Agayev I, Mammadzale F, Ursu P, et al. Two clusters of human infection with influenza A/H5N1 virus in the Republic of Azerbaijan, February-March 2006. Euro Surveill. 2006;11:122-6.
7. Spackman E, Senne DA, Myers TJ, Bulaga LL, Garber LP, Perdue ML, et al. Development of a real-time reverse transcriptase PCR assay for type A influenza virus and the avian H5 and H7 hemagglutinin subtypes. J Clin Microbiol. 2002;40:3256-60.
8. Kumar S, Tamura K, Nei M. MEGA3: Integrated software for molecular evolutionary genetics analysis and sequence alignment. Brief Bioinform. 2004;5:150-63.
9. Brown JD, Stallknecht DE, Beck JR, Suarez DL, Swayne DE. Susceptibility of North American ducks and gulls to H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006;12:1663-70.