Table. Genetic comparison of the 8 gene segments of the cat isolate (KU-02) to those of H5N1 isolates from Thailand.
| Gene | Region of comparison | % nucleotide identity |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KU-03 Pigeon (Jan 2004) | CU-T3 Tiger (Oct 2004) | CU-23 Chicken (Jul 2004) | Ti-1 Tiger (Jan 2004) | Leo-1 Leopard (Jan 2004) | CU-K2 Chicken (Jan 2004) | ||
| HA | 46–1623 | 99.6 | 99.7 | 99.9 | 99.9 | 99.8 | 98.5 |
| NA | 25–1297 | 99.6 | 99.5 | 99.6 | 99.9 | 99.8 | 99.8 |
| M | 1–952 | – | 99.9 | 99.8 | 99.6 | 99.5 | 99.7 |
| NS | 36–824 | – | 99.5 | 99.9 | 99.9 | 99.7 | 99.5 |
| NP | 58–1474 | – | 99.7 | 99.7 | 99.8 | 99.9 | 99.9 |
| PA | 28–2132 | – | 99.6 | 99.8 | 99.6 | 99.6 | 99.5 |
| PB1 | 62–2226 | – | 99.8 | 99.8 | 99.8 | 99.8 | 99.7 |
| PB2 | 82–2220 | 99.5 | 99.6 | 99.7 | 99.6 | 99.7 | 99.6 |