Emerging Infectious Diseases (May 2014)

Full-Genome Analysis of Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus from a Human, North America, 2013

  • Kanti Pabbaraju,
  • Raymond Tellier,
  • Sallene Wong,
  • Yan Li,
  • Nathalie Bastien,
  • Julian W. Tang,
  • Steven J. Drews,
  • Yunho Jang,
  • C. Todd Davis,
  • Kevin Fonseca,
  • Graham A. Tipples

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2005.140164
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 5
pp. 887 – 891

Abstract

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Full-genome analysis was conducted on the first isolate of a highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus from a human in North America. The virus has a hemagglutinin gene of clade 2.3.2.1c and is a reassortant with an H9N2 subtype lineage polymerase basic 2 gene. No mutations conferring resistance to adamantanes or neuraminidase inhibitors were found.

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