Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2018)

Circulation of Influenza A(H5N8) Virus, Saudi Arabia

  • Hussain Al-Ghadeer,
  • Daniel K.W. Chu,
  • Ehab A. Rihan,
  • Ehab M. Abd-Allah,
  • Haogao Gu,
  • Alex W.H. Chin,
  • Ibrahim A. Qasim,
  • Ali Aldoweriej,
  • Sanad S. Alharbi,
  • Marshad A. Al-Aqil,
  • Ali Al-Sahaf,
  • Salah S. Abdel Rahman,
  • Ali H. Aljassem,
  • Ali Abdul-Al,
  • Mohammed R. Aljasir,
  • Yousef M.O. Alhammad,
  • Samy Kasem,
  • Malik Peiris,
  • Ahmed Z.S.A. Zaki,
  • Leo L.M. Poon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2410.180846
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 10
pp. 1961 – 1964

Abstract

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Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N8) viruses have been detected in several continents. However, limited viral sequence data are available from countries in the Middle East. We report full-genome analyses of highly pathogenic H5N8 viruses recently detected in different provinces in Saudi Arabia.

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