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VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 142, Issue 3-4, Pages 232-241Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2009.10.012
Keywords
Avian influenza virus; Swine influenza virus; Temperature sensitivity; NPTr cells; Real-time quantitative PCR; PB2 627
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- Programme transversal de recherche (PTR)
- Agence Francaise de Securite Sanitaire des Aliments (AFSSA)
- Pasteur Institute
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Influenza A viruses have been isolated from a wide range of animal species, aquatic birds being the reservoir for their genetic diversity. Avian influenza viruses can be transmitted to humans, directly or indirectly through an intermediate host like pig. This study aimed to define in vitro conditions that could prove useful to evaluate the potential of influenza viruses to adapt to a different host. Growth of H1N1, H1N2 and H3N2 influenza viruses belonging to different lineages isolated from birds or pigs prior to 2005 was tested on MDCK or NPTr cell lines in the presence or absence of exogenous trypsin. Virus multiplication was compared at 33, 37 and 40 C, the infection site temperatures in human, swine and avian hosts, respectively. Temperature sensitivity of PB2-, NP- and M-RNA replication was also tested by quantitative real-time PCR Multiplication of avian viruses was cold-sensitive, whatever cell type. By contrast, temperature sensitivity of swine viruses was found to depend on the virus and the host cell: for an H1N1 swine isolate from 1982, multiplication was cold-sensitive on NPTr cells and undetectable at 40 degrees C. From genetic analyses, it appears that temperature sensitivity could involve other residues than PB2 residue 627 and could affect other steps of the replication cycle than replication. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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