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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 4(23), p. 633-636

DOI: 10.3201/eid2304.161949

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Outbreaks among Wild Birds and Domestic Poultry Caused by Reassorted Influenza A(H5N8) Clade 2.3.4.4 Viruses, Germany, 2016

Journal article published in 2017 by Anne Pohlmann, Elke Starick, Timm C. Harder, Dirk Höper, Christian Grund, Anja Globig, Christoph Staubach, Klaas Dietze, Günter Strebelow, Reiner Georg Ulrich, Jan Schinköthe, Jens Peter Teifke, Franz Josef Conraths, Thomas C. Mettenleiter, Martin Beer
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Abstract

In November 2016, an influenza A(H5N8) outbreak caused deaths of wild birds and domestic poultry in Germany. Clade 2.3.4.4 virus was closely related to viruses at the Russia–Mongolia border in 2016 but had new polymerase acidic and nucleoprotein segments. These new strains may be more efficiently transmitted to and shed by birds.