Omnia Kutkat, Mokhtar Gomaa, Basma Emad Aboulhoda, Yassmin Moatasim, Ahmed El Taweel, Mina Nabil Kamel, Mohamed El Sayes, Amany Elkhrsawy, Hend AbdAllah, Ahmed Kandeil, Pamela P McKenzie, Richard J Webby, Mohamed Ahmed Ali, Ghazi Kayali, Rabeh El-Shesheny
The first detection of a human infection with avian influenza A/H6N1 virus in Taiwan in 2013 has raised concerns about this virus. During our routine surveillance of avian influenza viruses (AIVs) in live-bird markets in Egypt, an H6N1 virus was isolated from a garganey duck and was characterized. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that the Egyptian H6N1 strain A/Garganey/Egypt/20869C/2022(H6N1) has a unique genomic constellation, with gene segments inherited from different subtypes (H5N1, H3N8, H7N3, H6N1, and H10N1) that have been detected previously in AIVs from Egypt and some Eurasian countries...
April 9, 2024: Archives of Virology