{"doi":"10.3201/eid2709.210819","title":"Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N6) Virus Clade 2.3.4.4h in Wild Birds and Live Poultry Markets, Bangladesh","abstract":"H ighly pathogenic avian infl uenza (HPAI) A(H5) viruses were identifi ed in 1996 in a goose from Guangdong, China, and the evolution of the hemagglutinins (HAs) of these A/goose/Guangdong/1/96 (Gs/GD) lineage viruses has given rise to multiple genetically distinct phylogenetic clades (1). The emergence of HA clade 2.3.4.4 viruses was associated with several different virus subtypes, including H5N6 (2). As of March 2021, a total of 29 laboratory-confi rmed human cases of H5N6 viruses have been reported from China, and 9 patients have died (3). Clade 2.3.4.4 H5N6 viruses have subsequently evolved, requiring further clade designations. Clade 2.3.4.4h viruses are found in China, Laos, and Vietnam (4). In December 2019 and January 2020, 2.3.4.4 H5N6 viruses were isolated from dead migratory whooper swans (Cygnus cygnus) and mute swans (Cygnus olor) in Xinjiang, western China (5). In April 2021, the same virus was detected in migratory birds in Mongolia (6).","journal":"Emerging infectious diseases","year":2021,"id":192208,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":12,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9371,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2021-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":456520,"name":"Subrata Barman","orcid":"0000-0002-5400-0079","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":758767,"name":"Mohammed M. Feeroz","orcid":"0000-0003-3699-7933","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":758768,"name":"Mahmudul Hasan","orcid":"0000-0002-3404-594X","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":758769,"name":"Sharmin Akhtar","orcid":"0000-0003-3507-976X","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":514296,"name":"Trushar Jeevan","orcid":null,"position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":758770,"name":"David Walker","orcid":"0000-0002-8783-0562","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":708215,"name":"John Franks","orcid":null,"position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":514297,"name":"Patrick Seiler","orcid":null,"position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":758771,"name":"Nabanita Mukherjee","orcid":"0000-0002-0228-5148","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":596227,"name":"Lisa Kercher","orcid":"0000-0001-6300-0452","position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":499055,"name":"Pamela McKenzie","orcid":"0000-0002-9585-955X","position":11,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":32568,"name":"Tommy Tsan‐Yuk Lam","orcid":"0000-0002-9769-1527","position":12,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":348310,"name":"Rabeh El‐Shesheny","orcid":"0000-0002-8798-2240","position":13,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":105444,"name":"Richard J. Webby","orcid":"0000-0002-4397-7132","position":14,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":758766,"name":"Jasmine Turner","orcid":"0000-0002-1185-6758","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":13,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-18T23:49:39.281850Z","pmid":"34424167","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}