Multiple reassorted viruses as cause of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N8) virus epidemic, the Netherlands, 2016

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 1966-1973

  Beerens, Nancy ^a,b   Heutink, Rene ^a   Bergervoet, Saskia A ^a   Harders, Frank ^a   Bossers, Alex ^a   Koch, Guus ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b National Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza and Newcastle Diseas   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATRIX PROTEIN; VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ; VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN; VIRUS SIALIDASE; NUCLEOPROTEIN; PB2 PROTEIN, INFLUENZAVIRUS A; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; VIRAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; AVIAN INFLUENZA (H5N8); AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC REASSORTMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POULTRY; SANGER SEQUENCING; VIRUS DETECTION; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; ANIMAL; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H5N8); ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MONGOLIA; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRDS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME, VIRAL; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N8 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; MONGOLIA; NETHERLANDS; NUCLEOPROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; POULTRY; REASSORTANT VIRUSES; RNA REPLICASE; RUSSIA; VIRAL PROTEINS; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

EID: 85034985386     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2312.171062     Document Type: Article

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