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Volume 27, Number 9—September 2021
Dispatch

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N6) Virus Clade 2.3.4.4h in Wild Birds and Live Poultry Markets, Bangladesh

Jasmine C.M. Turner, Subrata Barman, Mohammed M. Feeroz, M. Kamrul Hasan, Sharmin Akhtar, Trushar Jeevan, David Walker, John Franks, Patrick Seiler, Nabanita Mukherjee, Lisa Kercher, Pamela McKenzie, Tommy Lam, Rabeh El-Shesheny, and Richard J. WebbyComments to Author 
Author affiliations: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA (J.C.M. Turner, S. Barman, T. Jeevan, D. Walker, J. Franks, P. Seiler, N. Mukherjee, L. Kercher, P. McKenzie, R. El-Shesheny, R.J. Webby); Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Bangladesh (M.M. Feeroz, M.K. Hasan, S. Akhtar); The University of Hong Kong School of Public Health, Hong Kong, China (T. Lam); National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt (R. El-Shesheny)

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Table

Nucleotide sequence identities between the A/Ferruginous duck/Bangladesh/42380/2020 (H5N6) virus from Bangladesh and nearest virus homologs*

Gene GenBank accession no. Virus % Identity
PB2
MT872369.1 A/Whooper swan/Mongolia/25/2020 (H5N6) 99.83
MW108029.1†
A/duck/Hunan/1.12_YYGK74H3-OC/2018 (H5N6)
98.65
PB1
MT872369.1 A/Whooper swan/Mongolia/25/2020 (H5N6) 99.87
MW104086.1
A/chicken/Guangdong/7.20_DGCP022-O/2017 (H5N6)
99.04
PA
EPI_ISL_418181 A/Whooper swan/Xinjiang/13/2020 (A/H5N6) 99.9
EPI_ISL_340825
A/Env/Guangdong/Jieyang/C18289059/2018(H5N6)
99.5
HA
EPI_ISL_418175 A/Whooper swan/Xinjiang/7/2020 (A/H5N6) 99.8
EPI_ISL_340844
A/Env/Guangdong/C17285752/QY/2017 (H5N6)
98.9
NP
MT872369.1 A/Whooper swan/Mongolia/25/2020 (A/H5N6) 99.65
MW108029.1
A/duck/Hunan/1.12_YYGK74H3-OC/2018 (H5N6)
99.64
NA
EPI_ISL_418181 A/Whooper swan/Xinjiang/13/2020 (A/H5N6) 99.9
MW108138.1
A/duck/Hunan/11.30_YYGK63E3-OC/2017 (H5N6)
99.36
M
MT872369.1 A/Whooper swan/Mongolia/25/2020 (H5N6) 99.6
EPI_ISL_340825
A/Env/Guangdong/Jieyang/C18289059/2018 (H5N6)
99.9
NS EPI_ISL_418181 A/Whooper swan/Xinjiang/13/2020 (A/H5N6) 99.9
MW108029.1 A/duck/Hunan/1.12_YYGK74H3-OC/2018 (H5N6) 99.29

*HA, hemagglutinin; MP, matrix protein; NA, neuraminidase; NP, nucleoprotein; NS, nonstructural protein; PA, acidic polymerase; PB1, basic polymerase 1; PB2, basic polymerase 2. †Nearest virus homologs to A/Ferruginous duck/Bangladesh/42380/2020 (H5N6) excluding the H5N6 viruses from China (Xinjiang), and Mongolia.

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