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ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY
Volume 154, Issue 5, Pages 887-890Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-009-0381-1
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- China National Basic Research Program [2005CB523003]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30800832]
- China National Scientific and Technical Supporting Programs [2006BAD06A11, 2006BAD06A15]
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During 2004-2006 swine influenza virus surveillance, two strains of H3N8 influenza viruses were isolated from pigs in central China. Sequence and phylogenetic analyses of eight gene segments revealed that the two swine isolates were of equine origin and most closely related to European equine H3N8 influenza viruses from the early 1990s. Comparison of hemagglutinin (HA) amino acid sequences showed several important substitutions. One substitution caused the loss of a potential glycosylation site, and two substitutions, located at the cleavage site and adjacent to the receptor-binding pocket, respectively, had been reported previously in canine H3 HAs. This expansion of host range of equine H3N8 influenza viruses with mutations in the HA protein might raise the possibility of transmission of these viruses to humans.
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