Sub-Saharan Africa and Eurasia Ancestry of Reassortant Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N8) Virus, Europe, December 2019.

ABSTRACT: We report detection of a highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N8) clade 2.3.4.4b virus in Europe. This virus was generated by reassortment between H5N8 subtype virus from sub-Saharan Africa and low pathogenicity avian influenza viruses from Eurasia.

SUBMITTER: Swieton E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7323556 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature