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Editor, Senior Moderator
Emerg Infect Dis. 2017 Sep;23(9):1551-1555. doi: 10.3201/eid2309.170847.
[h=1]Influenza A(H3N2) Virus in Swine at Agricultural Fairs and Transmission to Humans, Michigan and Ohio, USA, 2016.[/h] Bowman AS, Walia RR, Nolting JM, Vincent AL, Killian ML, Zentkovich MM, Lorbach JN, Lauterbach SE, Anderson TK, Davis CT, Zanders N, Jones J, Jang Y, Lynch B, Rodriguez MR, Blanton L, Lindstrom SE, Wentworth DE, Schiltz J, Averill JJ, Forshey T.
[h=3]Abstract[/h] In 2016, a total of 18 human infections with influenza A(H3N2) virus occurred after exposure to influenza-infected swine at 7 agricultural fairs. Sixteen of these cases were the result of infection by a reassorted virus with increasing prevalence among US swine containing a hemagglutinin gene from 2010-11 human seasonal H3N2 strains.
[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] Michigan; Ohio; RNA viruses; United States; agricultural fair; animal population groups; animals; disease outbreaks; influenza A virus; livestock; public health; respiratory infections; swine; zoonoses
PMID: 28820376 DOI: 10.3201/eid2309.170847
[h=1]Influenza A(H3N2) Virus in Swine at Agricultural Fairs and Transmission to Humans, Michigan and Ohio, USA, 2016.[/h] Bowman AS, Walia RR, Nolting JM, Vincent AL, Killian ML, Zentkovich MM, Lorbach JN, Lauterbach SE, Anderson TK, Davis CT, Zanders N, Jones J, Jang Y, Lynch B, Rodriguez MR, Blanton L, Lindstrom SE, Wentworth DE, Schiltz J, Averill JJ, Forshey T.
[h=3]Abstract[/h] In 2016, a total of 18 human infections with influenza A(H3N2) virus occurred after exposure to influenza-infected swine at 7 agricultural fairs. Sixteen of these cases were the result of infection by a reassorted virus with increasing prevalence among US swine containing a hemagglutinin gene from 2010-11 human seasonal H3N2 strains.
[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] Michigan; Ohio; RNA viruses; United States; agricultural fair; animal population groups; animals; disease outbreaks; influenza A virus; livestock; public health; respiratory infections; swine; zoonoses
PMID: 28820376 DOI: 10.3201/eid2309.170847