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  • A systematic review of reported reassortant viral lineages of influenza A

    BMC Infect Dis. 2016 Jan 5;16(1):3. doi: 10.1186/s12879-015-1298-9.
    A systematic review of reported reassortant viral lineages of influenza A.

    Pinsent A1, Fraser C2, Ferguson NM3, Riley S4.
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    Abstract

    BACKGROUND:

    Most previous evolutionary studies of influenza A have focussed on genetic drift, or reassortment of specific gene segments, hosts or subtypes. We conducted a systematic literature review to identify reported claimed reassortant influenza A lineages with genomic data available in GenBank, to obtain 646 unique first-report isolates out of a possible 20,781 open-access genomes.
    RESULTS:

    After adjusting for correlations, only: swine as host, China, Europe, Japan and years between 1997 and 2002; remained as significant risk factors for the reporting of reassortant viral lineages. For swine H1, more reassortants were observed in the North American H1 clade compared with the Eurasian avian-like H1N1 clade. Conversely, for avian H5 isolates, a higher number of reported reassortants were observed in the European H5N2/H3N2 clade compared with the H5N2 North American clade.
    CONCLUSIONS:

    Despite unavoidable biases (publication, database choice and upload propensity) these results synthesize a large majority of the current literature on novel reported influenza A reassortants and are a potentially useful prerequisite to inform further algorithmic studies.


    PMID: 26732146 [PubMed - in process] PMCID: PMC4702296 Free PMC Article
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