Phylogenetic study-based hemagglutinin (HA) gene of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N1) detected from backyard chickens in Iran, 2015

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• 作者：Syed Ali Ghafouri ; Arash Ghalyanchi Langeroudi ; Hossein Maghsoudloo…
• 关键词：Avian influenza ; H5N1 ; Iran ; Phylogenetic analysis
• 刊名：Virus Genes
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：53
• 期：1
• 页码：117-120
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• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Medical Microbiology; Virology; Plant Sciences;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1572-994X
• 卷排序：53

文摘

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses of the H5N1 subtype have been diversified into multiple phylogenetic clades over the past decade and are highly genetically variable. In June 2015, one outbreak of HPAI H5N1 in backyard chickens was reported in the Nogardan village of the Mazandaran Province. Tracheal tissues were taken from the dead domestic chickens (n = 10) and processed for RT-PCR. The positive samples (n = 10) were characterized as HPAI H5N1 by sequencing analysis for the hemagglutinin and neuraminidase genes. Phylogenetic analysis of the samples revealed that the viruses belonged to clade 2.3.2.1c, and cluster with the HPAI H5N1 viruses isolated from different avian species in Bulgaria, Romania, and Nigeria in 2015. They were not closely related to other H5N1 isolates detected in previous years in Iran. Our study provides new insights into the evolution and genesis of H5N1 influenza in Iran and has important implications for targeting surveillance efforts to rapidly identify the spread of the virus into and within Iran.