An avian influenza virus (AIV), A/Emu/Israel/552/2010/ (H5N1), was isolated from a dead emu that was found in the Ein Gedi oasis near the Dead Sea. The virus molecular characterization was performed by reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and real-time RT-PCR using AIV subtype-specific primers. The virus was of high pathogenicity, according to its intravenous pathogenicity index of 2.85 and the nucleotide sequencing at the cleavage site of the hemagglutinin gene, GERRRKKR, which is typical for highly pathogenic chicken influenza A viruses.
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1 September 2011
Isolation and Identification of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus Subtype H5N1 from Emus from the Ein Gedi Oasis by the Dead Sea
Inbar Amnon,
Irina Shkoda,
Ekaterina Lapin,
Israel Raibstein,
Ezra Rosenbluth,
Sagit Nagar,
Shimon Perk,
Michel Bellaiche,
Irit Davidson
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Avian Diseases
Vol. 55 • No. 3
September 2011
Vol. 55 • No. 3
September 2011
avian influenza virus
emu
hemagglutinin gene sequence
HP H5N1 subtype