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AVIAN INFLUENZA (14): H5N1, WHO MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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[The WHO is concerned that the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework, a multi-country agreement ratified last spring 2011, has not been damaged by this research work. That apart, perhaps the most interesting information in this announcement are the facts that the avian A/(H5N1) influenza virus used by the Dutch group of Ron Fouchier at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands was an isolate obtained from Indonesia, whereas the virus used by Yoshihiro Kawaoka at the University of Wisconsin-Madison had been isolated in Viet Nam. The outcome of this meeting may shed light on the similarity of these 2 isolates and the extent to which this may have determined the outcome of the projects. - Mod.CP]
Rather bizarre comment at ProMED. Although the two groups independently acheived efficient transmission, the approaches were VERY different. Fouchier used an isolate from Indonesia, which would be clade 2.1 which has never been isolated outside of Indonesia. Kawaoka has published papers on reassortants between an H5N1 isolate from Hanoi, A/Vietnam/HN31604/2009, which is clade 2.3.4.2 and H1N1pdm09 (A/California/04/2009) and the censored paper in Nature descibes transmission that does not kill ferrets, in contrast to Fouchier, who creates and evolved H5N1 which transmits and kills.
Thus, it is unlikely that the two distinct approaches produce the same set of receptor binding domain changes.
Sequences from the initial clade 2.1 cases in Indonesia have been known for years. The sequence from first case (38M), A/Indonesia/5/05, has been at Genbank since 2007, and anyone with an internet connection can get the HA sequence
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/EF541394.1LOCUS EF541394 1729 bp cRNA linear VRL 01-MAY-2008
DEFINITION Influenza A virus (A/Indonesia/5/05(H5N1)) segment 4 hemagglutinin
(HA) gene, complete cds.
ACCESSION EF541394
VERSION EF541394.1 GI:145284449
KEYWORDS .
SOURCE Influenza A virus (A/Indonesia/5/2005(H5N1))
ORGANISM Influenza A virus (A/Indonesia/5/2005(H5N1))
Viruses; ssRNA negative-strand viruses; Orthomyxoviridae;
Influenzavirus A.
REFERENCE 1 (bases 1 to 1729)
AUTHORS Smith,C.
TITLE Direct Submission
JOURNAL Submitted (19-MAR-2007) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
1600 Clifton Road, Mailstop G-16, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
COMMENT Sequence entered by GenBank staff on behalf of submitter.
FEATURES Location/Qualifiers
source 1..1729
/organism="Influenza A virus (A/Indonesia/5/2005(H5N1))"
/mol_type="viral cRNA"
/strain="A/Indonesia/5/05"
/serotype="H5N1"
/isolation_source="38 year-old male"
/host="Homo sapiens"
/db_xref="taxon:400788"
/segment="4"
/country="Indonesia"
/collection_date="2005"
/note="passage level E"
misc_feature 1..1729
/db_xref="IRD:EF541394"
gene 9..1715
/gene="HA"
CDS 9..1715
/gene="HA"
/codon_start=1
/product="hemagglutinin"
/protein_id="ABP51969.1"
/db_xref="GI:145284450"
or any of the 8 gene segments
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid400788 Human H5N1 Indonesian Sequences Available at Los AlamosRecombinomics Commentary
August 4, 2006Yesterday Indonesia pledged to release the H5N1 human sequence sequestered in the WHO private database. Today the password protection on the sequences was removed and the sequences became publicly available. Analysis of the sequences can help determine origins and predict targets for vaccines. Orgins can be traced by monitoring informative polymorphisms.
Below is one such series, showing the similarity between the various human isolates and relationship to other H5N1 bird flu sequences at Genbank or Los Alamos.
ISDN136817 A/Feline/Indonesia/CDC1/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN136812 A/Indonesia/CDC326/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN136810 A/Indonesia/CDC326N/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN136811 A/Indonesia/CDC326N2/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN136813 A/Indonesia/CDC326T/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN136814 A/Indonesia/CDC326T/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN136815 A/Indonesia/CDC329/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN136816 A/Indonesia/CDC357/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN136908 A/Indonesia/CDC370/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN136909 A/Indonesia/CDC370E/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN137412 A/Indonesia/CDC370P/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN137413 A/Indonesia/CDC370T/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN181365 A/Indonesia/CDC523/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN183297 A/Indonesia/CDC523E/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN183305 A/Indonesia/CDC523T/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN183313 A/Indonesia/CDC582/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN140835 A/Indonesia/CDC594/06 2006 H5N1
ISDN140843 A/Indonesia/CDC595/06 2006 H5N1
ISDN140851 A/Indonesia/CDC596/06 2006 H5N1
ISDN140859 A/Indonesia/CDC597/06 2006 H5N1
ISDN140866 A/Indonesia/CDC599/06 2006 H5N1
ISDN183782 A/Indonesia/CDC599N/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN183698 A/Indonesia/CDC610/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN183706 A/Indonesia/CDC623/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN183714 A/Indonesia/CDC623E/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN183722 A/Indonesia/CDC624/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN183730 A/Indonesia/CDC624E/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN183738 A/Indonesia/CDC625/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN183770 A/Indonesia/CDC625L/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN183746 A/Indonesia/CDC634/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN183754 A/Indonesia/CDC634P/2006 2006 H5N1
ISDN183762 A/Indonesia/CDC634T/2006 2006 H5N1
DQ497667 A/chicken/Dairi/BPPVI/2005 2005 H5N1
DQ497668 A/chicken/Deli Serdang/BPPVI/2005 2005 H5N1
DQ497651 A/chicken/Gunung Kidal/BBVW/2005 2005 H5N1
DQ497652 A/chicken/Kulon Progo/BBVW/2005 2005 H5N1
DQ497643 A/chicken/Magetan/BBVW/2005 2005 H5N1
DQ497648 A/chicken/Purworejo/BBVW/2005 2005 H5N1
DQ320928 A/chicken/Salatiga/BBVet-I/2005 2005 H5N1
DQ497665 A/chicken/Simalanggang/BPPVI/2005 2005 H5N1
DQ497669 A/chicken/Tarutung/BPPVI/2005 2005 H5N1
DQ497666 A/chicken/Tebing Tinggi/BPPVI/2005 2005 H5N1
DQ320933 A/chicken/Wajo/BBVM/2005 2005 H5N1
DQ497659 A/duck/Parepare/BBVM/2005 2005 H5N1
ISDN125873 A/Indonesia/5/05 2005 H5N1
ISDN136806 A/Indonesia/CDC287E/2005 2005 H5N1
ISDN136807 A/Indonesia/CDC287T/2005 2005 H5N1
ISDN136808 A/Indonesia/CDC292N/2005 2005 H5N1
ISDN136809 A/Indonesia/CDC292T/2005 2005 H5N1
DQ497662 A/chicken/Kupang-1-NTT/BPPV6/2004 2004 H5N1
DQ497663 A/chicken/Pangkalpinang/BPPV3/2004 2004 H5N1
DQ320930 A/chicken/Yogjakarta/BBVet-IX/2004 2004 H5N1................
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