Emerging Infectious Diseases (May 2022)

Emerging Novel Reassortant Influenza A(H5N6) Viruses in Poultry and Humans, China, 2021

  • Wenming Jiang,
  • Chunxia Dong,
  • Shuo Liu,
  • Cheng Peng,
  • Xin Yin,
  • Shaobo Liang,
  • Lin Zhang,
  • Jinping Li,
  • Xiaohui Yu,
  • Yang Li,
  • Jingjing Wang,
  • Guangyu Hou,
  • Zheng Zeng,
  • Hualei Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2805.212163
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 5
pp. 1064 – 1066

Abstract

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A novel highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N6) clade 2.3.4.4b virus was isolated from a poultry market in China that a person with a confirmed case had visited. Most genes of the avian and human H5N6 isolates were closely related. The virus also exhibited distinct antigenicity to the Re-11 vaccine strain.

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