Volume 10, Number 12, December 2004

Novel Avian Influenza H7N3 Strain Outbreak, British Columbia

Martin Hirst,* Caroline R. Astell,* Malachi Griffith,* Shaun M. Coughlin,* Michelle Moksa,* Thomas Zeng,* Duane E. Smailus,* Robert A. Holt,* Steven Jones,* Marco A. Marra,* Martin Petric,† Mel Krajden,† David Lawrence,† Annie Mak,† Ron Chow,† Danuta M. Skowronski,† S. Aleina Tweed,† SweeHan Goh,† Robert C. Brunham,† John Robinson,‡ Victoria Bowes,‡Ken Sojonky,‡ Sean K. Byrne,‡ Yan Li,§ Darwyn Kobasa,§ Tim Booth,§ and Mark Paetzel¶
*British Columbia Cancer Agency (BCCA) Genome Sciences Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; †British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and University of British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; ‡Ministry of Agriculture, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada; §Canadian Centre for Human and Animal Health, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; and ¶Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Figure 1. Alignment of the hemagglutinin cleavage region from four isolates of Fraser Valley H7N3 virus. A/Chicken/Canada/AVFV1/04 is designated AVFV1; A/Chicken/Canada/AVFV2/04 is designated AVFV2; A/Canada/444/04 (human) is Hu444, and A/Canada/504/04 (human) is Hu504). A 7–amino-acid (aa) insertion associated with the AVFV2 isolate and both human isolates is shown at aa 338.

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