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SUBMITTER: Lee DH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6154162 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Dong-Hun DH Torchetti Mia Kim MK Hicks Joseph J Killian Mary Lea ML Bahl Justin J Pantin-Jackwood Mary M Swayne David E DE
Emerging infectious diseases 20181001 10
Eurasia highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) H5 clade 2.3.4.4 emerged in North America at the end of 2014 and caused outbreaks affecting >50 million poultry in the United States before eradication in June 2015. We investigated the underlying ecologic and epidemiologic processes associated with this viral spread by performing a comparative genomic study using 268 full-length genome sequences and data from outbreak investigations. Reassortant HPAIV H5N2 circulated in wild birds along th ...[more]