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Adv Exp Med Biol. 2016 Sep 28. [Epub ahead of print]
Human-Animal Interface: The Case for Influenza Interspecies Transmission.
Donatelli I1, Castrucci MR2, De Marco MA3, Delogu M4, Webster RG5.
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Abstract
Since the 1990s, the threat of influenza viruses to veterinary and human public health has increased. This coincides with the larger global populations of poultry, pigs, and people and with changing ecological factors. These factors include the redistribution of the human population to cities, rapid mass transportation of people and infectious agents, increased global land use, climate change, and possible changes in viral ecology that perpetuate highly pathogenic influenza viruses in the aquatic bird reservoir. The emergence of H5N1, H7N9, and H9N2 subtypes of influenza A virus and the increased genetic exchange among influenza viruses in wild aquatic birds, domestic poultry, swine, and humans pose a continuing threat to humanity. Here we consider the fundamental and practical knowledge of influenza A viruses at the human-animal interfaces to facilitate the development of novel control strategies and modified agricultural practices that will reduce or prevent interspecies transmission.
KEYWORDS:
Avian influenza; H5N1; H7N9; Zoonosis
PMID: 27677275 DOI: 10.1007/5584_2016_136
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Human-Animal Interface: The Case for Influenza Interspecies Transmission.
Donatelli I1, Castrucci MR2, De Marco MA3, Delogu M4, Webster RG5.
Author information
Abstract
Since the 1990s, the threat of influenza viruses to veterinary and human public health has increased. This coincides with the larger global populations of poultry, pigs, and people and with changing ecological factors. These factors include the redistribution of the human population to cities, rapid mass transportation of people and infectious agents, increased global land use, climate change, and possible changes in viral ecology that perpetuate highly pathogenic influenza viruses in the aquatic bird reservoir. The emergence of H5N1, H7N9, and H9N2 subtypes of influenza A virus and the increased genetic exchange among influenza viruses in wild aquatic birds, domestic poultry, swine, and humans pose a continuing threat to humanity. Here we consider the fundamental and practical knowledge of influenza A viruses at the human-animal interfaces to facilitate the development of novel control strategies and modified agricultural practices that will reduce or prevent interspecies transmission.
KEYWORDS:
Avian influenza; H5N1; H7N9; Zoonosis
PMID: 27677275 DOI: 10.1007/5584_2016_136
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]