... Thehuman virus isolate of H5N1, A/ Thailand/KAN-1/04(H5N1) [9], was kindly provided by Pilaipan Putha-vathana at Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. Wemade one passage of the original seed ... A, Thanawongnuwech R,Suradhat S, Pariyothorn N, Tantilertcharoen R, Damrongwantana-pokin S, Buranathai C, Chaisingh A, Songserm T, Poovorawan Y:Genetic characterization of H5N1 influenza A ... data. All authors have read and approved the manu-script.AcknowledgementsWe thank Dr P. Puthavathana (Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand) for providing H5N1 influenza virus. We thank Drs...