First Detection of a Novel Reassortant Avian Influenza A(H5N6) Clade 2.3.2.1c Virus, Isolated from a Wild Bird in China

Tao Zhang; Ruiyun Li; Gaodong Zhu; Jianyu Chang; Bing Xu

doi:10.1128/MRA.00797-19

First Detection of a Novel Reassortant Avian Influenza A(H5N6) Clade 2.3.2.1c Virus, Isolated from a Wild Bird in China

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Sep 5;8(36):e00797-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00797-19.

Authors

Tao Zhang^#¹, Ruiyun Li^#², Gaodong Zhu³, Jianyu Chang⁴, Bing Xu⁵

Affiliations

¹ Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
² MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
³ Suichuan Forestry Bureau, Jiangxi, China.
⁴ College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China changjianyu@cau.edu.cn bingxu@tsinghua.edu.cn.
⁵ Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China changjianyu@cau.edu.cn bingxu@tsinghua.edu.cn.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

We report the first isolation of a reassortant clade 2.3.2.1c avian influenza A(H5N6) virus isolated from a wild bird sample in Jiangxi, China, in 2016. Sequence analyses indicated that this virus most likely evolved from Eurasia-derived H5N1 and H6N6 viruses through frequent interactions at the wild-domestic bird interface.