Qinghai H5N1 in the Czech Republic Similar to Kuwait
Recombinomics Commentary
June 27, 2007
Influenzavirus has very large genetic similarity (99.5 per cent) with the H5N1 - virus, which had arisen in the spring in Kuwait with poultry and hunt falcon.
The above translation indicates the H5N1 on the turkey farm in the Czech Republic is similar to 2007 isolates from Kuwait. Linkage between western Europe and the Middle East is not a surprise. One of the markers that was in clade 2.2.2.3 in Germany, NA G743A, was appended onto 2007 sequences in Moscow, the Egypt, and the initial isolates from Ghana. Similarly, the HA M230I that appeared in the Nile Delta in late 2006 was in a clade 2.2.2.3 eagle owl, isolated in February 2006 in Germany.
Polymorphism tracing defines a large number of polymorphisms that were in Europe Qinghai H5N1 isolates and were subsequently acquired by isolates in the Middle East and Africa.
Wild birds transport and transmit these sequences, and the migration routes can be readily define by polymorphism tracing.
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