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

ABSTRACT: 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.

SUBMITTER: Jiang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9045449 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature