Volume 25, Number 12—December 2019
Dispatch
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N8) Virus in Gray Seals, Baltic Sea
Dai-Lun Shin, Ursula Siebert, Jan Lakemeyer, Miguel Grilo, Iwona Pawliczka, Nai-Huei Wu, Peter Valentin-Weigand, Ludwig Haas1, and Georg Herrler
Table
Molecular markers for enhancing interspecies transmission ability of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N8) virus to seals, Poland*
| Subtype | Location | Year isolated | Amino acid position |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PB2 |
PB1 |
PA |
HA† |
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| 17C | E627K | D701N | 453S | 192H | 226L | 228S | ||||||
| H5N8‡ | Baltic Sea | 2016 | R | E | D | A | R | Q | G | |||
| H10N7§ | North Sea | 2015 | C | E | D | S | H | L | G | |||
| H3N8¶ | North Atlantic Ocean | 2011 | R | E | N | A | R | Q | G | |||
| H4N5# | North Atlantic Ocean | 1982 | R | E | D | A | R | Q | G | |||
| H7N7** | North Atlantic Ocean | 1980 | R | E | D | A | R | Q | G | |||
*HA, hemagglutinin; PB1, polymerase basic 1; PB2, polymerase basic 2; PA, polymerase.
†All HA genes are in H3 numbering.
‡Strain destination: A/gray seal/BalticPL/361–10/2016 (this study).
§Strain destination: A/harbor seal/Netherlands/PV14–221_ThS/2015.
¶Strain destination: A/harbor seal/New Hampshire/179629/2011.
#Strain destination: A/harbor seal/Massachusetts/133/1982.
**Strain destination: A/harbor seal/Massachusetts/1/1980.
1Deceased.
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