Journal
SCIENCE CHINA-LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 65, Issue 5, Pages 1024-1035Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11427-020-1981-5
Keywords
receptor binding; pathogenicity; respiratory droplet transmissibility
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- National Key Research and Development Project of China [2016YFD0500202-1, 2016YFD0501601]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31772755]
- Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars [BK20170068]
- Earmarked Fund For China Agriculture Research System [CARS-40]
- Open Project Program of Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis [R1808]
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD)
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Decades after the discovery of the H10-subtype avian influenza virus in 1949, a new novel reassortant H10N3 virus has been isolated in chickens, showing low pathogenicity in chickens but high pathogenicity in mice and guinea pigs. These viruses can be transmitted between animals via direct contact and respiratory droplets, and have the ability to bind to both human-type and avian-type receptors, posing a potential threat to human and public health.
Decades have passed since the first discovery of H10-subtype avian influenza virus (AIV) in chickens in 1949, and it has been detected in many species including mammals such as minks, pigs, seals and humans. Cases of human infections with H10N8 viruses identified in China in 2013 have raised widespread attention. Two novel reassortant H10N3 viruses were isolated from chickens in December 2019 in eastern China during routine surveillance for AIVs. The internal genes of these viruses were derived from genotype S (G57) H9N2 and were consistent with H5N6, H7N9 and H10N8, which cause fatal infections in humans. Their viral pathogenicity and transmissibility were further studied in different animal models. The two H10N3 isolates had low pathogenicity in chickens and were transmitted between chickens via direct contact. These viruses were highly pathogenic in mice and could be transmitted between guinea pigs via direct contact and respiratory droplets. More importantly, these viruses can bind to both human-type SA alpha-2,6-Gal receptors and avian-type SA alpha-2,3-Gal receptors. Asymptomatic shedding in chickens and good adaptability to mammals of these H10N3 isolates would make it easier to transmit to humans and pose a threat to public health.
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