TABLE 2.
Pairwise amino acid comparison of full-length and HA1 proteins of the H5 proteins from challenge vaccine seed strains
| Vaccine seed strain | % amino acid sequence identity of full-length protein/HA1 protein for the following challenge viruses: |
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|---|---|---|---|
| SMI-HAMD/06 | Papua/06 | PWT/06 | |
| Legok/03 | 99.8/100 | 97.5/96.6 | 94.9/92.3 |
| VN/04 | 97.4/97.2 | 94.9/94.1 | 93.5/91.0 |
| GD/96 | 96.0/95.7 | 93.8/93.2 | 92.1/89.5 |
| Eng/73 | 90.1/90.4 | 89.4/89.2 | 86.484.2 |
| Ireland/83 | 89.9/88.2 | 89.1/87.0 | 87.7/84.5 |
| WI/68 | 88.3/86.1 | 88.3/86.4 | 84.8/80.5 |
| Mex/94 | 86.7/85.4 | 86.2/84.8 | 82.8/79.3 |