Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jan 2020)

Novel Reassortant Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N2) Virus in Broiler Chickens, Egypt

  • Kareem E. Hassan,
  • Jacqueline King,
  • Magdy El-Kady,
  • Manal Afifi,
  • Hassanein H. Abozeid,
  • Anne Pohlmann,
  • Martin Beer,
  • Timm Harder

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2601.190570
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 1
pp. 129 – 133

Abstract

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We detected a novel reassortant highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N2) virus in 3 poultry farms in Egypt. The virus carried genome segments of a pigeon H9N2 influenza virus detected in 2014, a nucleoprotein segment of contemporary chicken H9N2 viruses from Egypt, and hemagglutinin derived from the 2.3.4.4b H5N8 virus clade.

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