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. 2012 May;18(5):814-6.
doi: 10.3201/eid1805.111852.

Influenza virus A (H10N7) in chickens and poultry abattoir workers, Australia

George G Arzey  1 , Peter D Kirkland, K Edla Arzey, Melinda Frost, Patrick Maywood, Stephen Conaty, Aeron C Hurt, Yi-Mo Deng, Pina Iannello, Ian Barr, Dominic E Dwyer, Mala Ratnamohan, Kenneth McPhie, Paul Selleck
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Influenza virus A (H10N7) in chickens and poultry abattoir workers, Australia

George G Arzey et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2012 May.

Abstract

In March 2010, an outbreak of low pathogenicity avian influenza A (H10N7) occurred on a chicken farm in Australia. After processing clinically normal birds from the farm, 7 abattoir workers reported conjunctivitis and minor upper respiratory tract symptoms. Influenza virus A subtype H10 infection was detected in 2 workers.

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Phylogenetic analysis of avian influenza subtype H10 hemagglutinin (HA) sequences. HA sequences of all subtype H10 viruses deposited in GenBank were downloaded, and a neighbor-joining tree was created by using Jukes-Cantor as the genetic distance model on Geneious 5.14 software (Biomatters Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand) and a phylogenetic tree drawn by using FigTree version 1.3.1 (http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/software/figtree/). A representative HA sequence from the subtype H10N7 viruses detected from the New South Wales chicken farm outbreak (A/chicken/Sydney/809/2010) has been submitted to the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (accession no. EPI339225) and is marked by the star in the tree. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.
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