Complete Genome Sequence of a Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus (H5N2) Associated with an Outbreak in Commercial Chickens, Iowa, USA, 2015

Travis Clement; Gerald F Kutish; Jill Nezworski; Joy Scaria; Eric Nelson; Jane Christopher-Hennings; Diego G Diel

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00613-15

Complete Genome Sequence of a Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus (H5N2) Associated with an Outbreak in Commercial Chickens, Iowa, USA, 2015

Genome Announc. 2015 Jun 11;3(3):e00613-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00613-15.

Authors

Travis Clement¹, Gerald F Kutish², Jill Nezworski³, Joy Scaria¹, Eric Nelson¹, Jane Christopher-Hennings¹, Diego G Diel⁴

Affiliations

¹ Animal Disease Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (ADRDL), Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA.
² Department of Pathobiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA.
³ Blue House Veterinary LLC, Hector, Minnesota, USA.
⁴ Animal Disease Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (ADRDL), Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA diego.diel@sdstate.edu.

Abstract

A novel reassortant influenza A virus (H5N2) was first detected in British Columbia, Canada, in December 2014. The virus rapidly spread along the waterfowl migration flyways in the United States, causing multiple HPAI outbreaks in poultry. Here, we present the complete genome sequence of HPAIV-H5N2 from a commercial chicken flock in Iowa.

Grants and funding

P01 AG000001/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States