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Email Address: Won-Bo Wang : wbwang@ntu.edu.tw
Conceived and designed the experiments: CCK WBW. Performed the experiments: YTL HYK CCL CYL.
Analyzed the data: YTL HYK CCL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CLK WBW.
Wrote the paper: YTL CCK WBW. Paper review and discussion: CY.
The authors would like to express our sincere gratitude to Ms. Hsiu-Ping Lin, Mr. Ming-Der Liu, Mr. Tiger Zheng-Rong Li, Mr. Kuan-Yin Chu and several part-time assistants for their effort in field specimen collection.
In addition, the microscope kindly provided by Dr. Kun-Hsien Tsai; scientific discussion and suggestions offered by Dr. Sui-Yuan Chang, Dr. Ming-Fu Chang, Dr. Ming-Tsan Liu, Dr. Chin-Ho Wang, Dr. Shin-Ru Shih and Dr. Shih-Shun Lin are highly appreciated.
We sincerely thank all administrative assistance offered by Ms. Chin-Yi Chen, Ms. Wen-Wen Wang and Mr. Yun-Cheng Chang at the National Taiwan University, Ms. Tanya J. Cassingham [Deputy Director at the Emory-University of Georgia at Athens (UGA) Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (Emory-UGA CEIRS)—Influenza Pathogenesis and Immunology Research Center (IPIRC)] and Dr. Abdul M Jabbar at the Emory Vaccine Center.
We also greatly appreciate Dr. Robert Webster’s long-term guidance in surveillance of avian influenza viruses, Dr. Yi Guan at University of Hong Kong for his discussion in viral evolution studies.
Dr. Diane J. Post at Influenza Project Office, NIH in the U.S. for her effort in organizing influenza surveillance meetings for scientists to discuss important issues and collaboration, Dr. Walter Orenstein (a PI, Emory-UGA CEIRS, Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases; Associate Director, Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University) for his leadership on influenza team research.
Dr. Richard Compans (a Co-PI, Emory-UGA CEIRS, Professor, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, Emory University) for his critical review of this manuscript and Mr. Kent M. Suárez, Ms. Melody Wang, Ms. Tanya J. Cassingham, Mr. Jonathan Kao, and Mr. Elias F. Onyoh for their efforts in English editing.
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We would like to thank the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States [NIAID contract grant for Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (CEIRS): HHSN266200700006C] and the National Science Council (NSC) in Taiwan [NSC Grant #102-2621-M-002-002] for financial support of virological surveillance and characterization conducted in this study.
Phenotypic and Genetic Characterization of Avian Influenza H5N2 Viruses with Intra- and Inter-Duck Variations in Taiwan.
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