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SUBMITTER: Yu D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6540644 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 20190501 21
After no reported human cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H7N9 for over a year, a case with severe disease occurred in late March 2019. Among HPAI H7N9 viral sequences, those recovered from the case and from environmental samples of a poultry slaughtering stall near their home formed a distinct clade from 2017 viral sequences. Several mutations possibly associated to antigenic drift occurred in the haemagglutinin gene, potentially warranting update of H7N9 vaccine strains. ...[more]