TABLE 5.

Comparison of seal11 antigenic sites with those of avian A(H3N2) and A(H3N8), early human pandemic A(H3N2) 1968, and recent human seasonal A(H3N2) virus HAs

AS	No. of amino acids in AS	% identity of consensus sequence to seal11 sequencea
		Avian		Human pandemic A(H3N2)
		A(H3N2)	A(H3N8)	1968	2013
A	25	96	88	84	52
B	19	89	95	89	32
C	12	92	92	92	42
D	22	91	91	86	73
E	13	92	92	77	46

^aSequences were downloaded from the GISAID database and aligned/analyzed using CLUSTALX (81).