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. 2009 Mar;3(2):59-62.
doi: 10.1111/j.1750-2659.2009.00078.x.

Continuing progress towards a unified nomenclature for the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses: divergence of clade 2.2 viruses

WHO/OIE/FAO H5N1 Evolution Working Group
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Continuing progress towards a unified nomenclature for the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses: divergence of clade 2.2 viruses

WHO/OIE/FAO H5N1 Evolution Working Group. Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 2009 Mar.
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Neighbor‐joining (NJ) tree of clade 2·2 H5N1 hemagglutinin gene sequences descending from A/goose/Guangdong/1/96‐like viruses. The tree is rooted at the clade 2·5 node. Bayesian posterior probabilities and NJ bootstrap values (1000 replicates) are shown in red and black, respectively.
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