… swan migration routes in central China. We isolated and sequenced 42 avian influenza
viruses, including 40 H5N8 viruses, 1 H5N2 virus, and 1 H9N2 virus, in central China. Our H5N8 …

… Notably, all H5N2 isolates reported in Asian … H5N2 avian influenza viruses isolated from
poultry in China, which possess HA genes closely related to the circulating HPAI H5N1 viruses. …

… isolated from poultry in LPMs in Zhejiang Province, Eastern China. … , it was not observed
in the remaining three H5N2 viruses. All H5N2 viruses characterized in this study contained the …

… gene of this H5N2 virus was very closely related to H5 viruses circulating in China from 2008
to … suggested that this H5N2 virus was most closely related to Chinese isolates from poultry. …

… surveillance of avian influenza H5N1 viruses among wild birds in Northeast China from
April to September 2012 and isolated three HPAI H5N1 viruses from different species. We …

… There were eight H5N2 isolates. Phylogenetic analysis of the N2 genes showed that they
belonged to three different clades, but were not in the H9N2–like category. There were 14 …

… Our study of 27 H5 wild bird viruses revealed that H5N1, H5N2, H5N6, and H5N8 viruses …
influenza outbreaks in China over the last decade. These viruses formed multiple genotypes …

… of a Chinese reassortant H5N2 avian influenza virus which possessed … H5N1 viruses and
their H5N5 reassortant descendants. These … mechanism of H5 subtype avian influenza viruses. …

… in producing novel HPAI H5N2 viruses. For … H5N2 viruses isolated from poultry in China
from 2009 to 2011. Two of them (A/duck/Eastern China/1111/2011 and A/goose/Eastern China/…

… However, it is evidenced that from 2009 onwards, novel HPAI H5N2 viruses with complex
reassortant gene constellations have been continuously detected in poultry in …