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VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 149, Issue 1-2, Pages 254-261Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2010.11.008
Keywords
Swine influenza; Avian H9N2 influenza virus; Phylogenetic analysis; Genetic diversity
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- National Basic Research Program (973 Plan) of China [2005CB523200]
- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences [2010JB02]
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Pandemic strains of influenza A virus might arise by genetic reassortment between viruses from different hosts. Pigs are susceptible to both human and avian influenza viruses and have been proposed to be intermediate hosts or mixing vessels, for the generation of pandemic influenza viruses through reassortment or adaptation to the mammalian host. In this study, we summarize and report for the first time the coexistence of 10 (A-J) genotypes in pigs in China by analyzing the eight genes of 28 swine H9N2 viruses isolated in China from 1998 to 2007. Swine H9N2 viruses in genotype A and B were completely derived from Y280-like and Shanghai/F/98-like viruses, respectively, which indicated avian-to-pig interspecies transmission of H9N2 viruses did exist in China. The other eight genotype (C-J) viruses might be double-reassortant viruses, in which six genotype (E-J) viruses possessed 1-4 H5-like gene segments indicating they were reassortants of H9 and H5 viruses. In conclusion, genetic diversity of H9N2 influenza viruses from pigs in China provides further evidence that avian to pig interspecies transmission of H9N2 viruses did occur and might result in the generation of new reassortant viruses by genetic reassortment with swine H1N1, H1N2 and H3N2 influenza viruses, therefore, these swine H9N2 influenza viruses might be a potential threat to human health and continuing to carry out swine influenza virus surveillance in China is of great significance. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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