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Volume 26, Number 8—August 2020
Dispatch

Atypical Pathogenicity of Avian Influenza (H3N1) Virus Involved in Outbreak, Belgium, 2019

Mieke SteenselsComments to Author , Philippe Gelaude, Steven Van Borm, Thierry Van Den Berg, Mickaël Cargnel, Virginie Roupie, Fabienne Rauw, and Bénédicte Lambrecht
Author affiliations: Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium (M. Steensels, S. Van Borm, T. Van Den Berg, M. Cargnel, V. Roupie, F. Rauw, B. Lambrecht); Animal Health Vlaanderen, Torhout, Belgium (P. Gelaude)

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Table 1

Most homologous publicly available sequence for each gene segment of A/Gallus gallus/Belgium/3497_0001/2019 (H3N1) virus*

Gene Closest BLAST hit (closest poultry BLAST hits)
Sequences Accession no. Nucleotide identity, %
PB2
A/tufted duck/Georgia/1/2012 (H2N3) 
(A/chicken/Hubei/ZYSJF15/2016[H9N2])
MF147767.1 
(KY415880.1)
97.74
(96.66)
PB1
A/northern shoveler/Egypt/MB-D-695C/2016 (H7N3) 
(A/chicken/Sichuan/k141/2017[H5N6])
MN208053.1 
(MH715337.1)
98.58
(98.24)
PA
A/mallard duck/Netherlands/56/2015 (H3N2) 
(A/pigeon/Anhui/08/2013[H3N8])
MF755261.1 
(KJ579961.1)
98.68
(96.68)
HA
A/Mallard/Netherlands/37/2015 (H3N8) 
(A/chicken/Viet Nam/HN-1724/2014[mixed])
MK414733.1 
(MK963734.1)
98.32
(96.68)
NP
A/duck/Mongolia/543/2015 (H4N6) 
(A/chicken/Italy/22A/1998[H5N9], A/chicken/Vietnam/HU1-976/2014[H9N2])
LC121413.1 
(CY022624.1, LC069933.1)
98.50
(96.79, 96.64)
NA
A/mallard duck/Georgia/7/2015 (H6N1) 
(A/chicken/Vietnam/HU4-26/2015[H6N1], A/chicken/France/150169a/2015[H5N1])
MF694086.1 
(LC339717.1, KU310449.1)
97.94
(96.78, 96.45)
M
A/mallard/Netherlands/89/2017 (H4N6) 
(A/domestic duck/Georgia/9/2016[H4N6])
MK192396.1 
(MF694025.1)
98.91
(98.11)
NS A/mallard duck/Netherlands/31/2013 (H10N7) 
(A/chicken/France/150169a/2015[H5N1], A/chicken/Korea/C47/2009(H9N2)) KX979173.1 
(KU310451.1, KY785842.1) 99.19
(98.04, 97.46)

*Determined by BLASTn analysis (https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi). NA, neuraminidase; M, matrix; neuraminidase; HA, hemagglutinin; matrix; NS, nonstructural; PA, polymerase acidic; PB, polymerase basic.

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