[Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, full page: (LINK). Abstract, edited.]


Volume 19, Number 12?December 2013

Dispatch

Novel Reassortant Influenza A(H1N2) Virus Derived from A(H1N1)pdm09 Virus Isolated from Swine, Japan, 2012

Miho Kobayashi, Ikuyo Takayama, Tsutomu Kageyama, Hiroyuki Tsukagoshi, Mika Saitoh, Taisei Ishioka, Yoko Yokota, Hirokazu Kimura, Masato Tashiro, and Kunihisa Kozawa

Author affiliations: Gunma Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences, Maebashi-shi, Gunma, Japan (M. Kobayashi, H. Tsukagoshi, M. Saitoh, T. Ishioka, Y. Yokota, K. Kozawa); National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Musashimurayama-shi, Tokyo, Japan (I.Takayama, T. Kageyama, H. Kimura, M. Tashiro)


Abstract

We isolated a novel influenza virus A(H1N2) strain from a pig on January 13, 2012, in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the strain was a novel type of double-reassortant virus derived from the swine influenza virus strains H1N1pdm09 and H1N2, which were prevalent in Gunma at that time.


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