Reassortment of avian influenza A/H6N6 viruses from live poultry markets in Guangdong, China

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue FEB, 2016, Pages

  Yuan, Runyu ^a,b,c   Zou, Lirong ^a,b   Kang, Yinfeng ^c   Wu, Jie ^a,b   Zeng, Xianqiao ^d   Lu, Jing ^d   Liang, Lijun ^a,b   Song, Yingchao ^a,b   Zhang, Xin ^a,b   Ni, Hanzhong ^a,b   Lin, Jinyan ^a,b   Liao, Ming ^c   Ke, Changwen ^a,b  

^a GUANGZHOU CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Guangdong Provincial Institute of Nephrology   (China)

Author keywords

Avian influenza virus; Guangdong; H6N6; Live poultry market; Reassortment

Indexed keywords

HEMAGGLUTININ; MATRIX PROTEIN; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; OSELTAMIVIR; SIALIDASE;

ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA A/H6N6; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; CHINA; EGG; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC REASSORTMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMAGGLUTININ GENE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POULTRY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUMMER; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 84962129682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00065     Document Type: Article

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