Influenza A(H5N8) virus similar to strain in Korea causing highly pathogenic avian influenza in Germany

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 860-863

  Harder, Timm ^a   Maurer Stroh, Sebastian ^b,c,d   Pohlmann, Anne ^a   Starick, Elke ^a   Höreth Böntgen, Detlef ^a   Albrecht, Karin ^e   Pannwitz, Gunter ^e   Teifke, Jens ^a   Gunalan, Vithiagaran ^d   Lee, Raphael T C ^d   Sauter Louis, Carola ^a   Homeier, Timo ^a   Staubach, Christoph ^a   Wolf, Carola ^f   Strebelow, Günter ^a   Höper, Dirk ^a   Grund, Christian ^a   Conraths, Franz J ^a   Mettenleiter, Thomas C ^a   Beer, Martin ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Singapore)

^d AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^e County Veterinary Office ^*  (Germany)

^f Agency for Agriculture Food Security and Fisheries of the German Federal State of Mecklenburg Western Pomerania   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIALIDASE; VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN; INFLUENZA VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; GERMANY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N8; KOREA; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREAS NECROSIS; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; TURKEY (BIRD); VIRUS STRAIN; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; VIROLOGY; WILD ANIMAL;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRDS; GERMANY; HEMAGGLUTININ GLYCOPROTEINS, INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; TURKEYS;

EID: 84928036555     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2105.141897     Document Type: Article

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