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Sci Rep. 2019 Dec 17;9(1):19287. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-55254-z. [h=1]Re-evaluation of the evolution of influenza H1 viruses using direct PCA.[/h]
Konishi T[SUP]1[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h] 1 Graduate School of Bioresource Sciences, Akita Prefectural University, Akita, Japan. konishi@akita-pu.ac.jp.
[h=3]Abstract[/h] The history of influenza H1 virus was re-evaluated by applying a new methodology to sequencing data; this objective method enables comparisons among viral types. The approach led to the segregation of all segments of swine and human viruses into three distinct groups: two of them included the pandemic 1977 and 2009 human viruses, and the remaining group may be new in humans. These three groups might have originated from avian viruses and drifted out independently. Genome shifts occurred occasionally among swine viruses; however, distances between avian and swine/human viruses negated the existence of direct shifts from avian viruses. In humans, only one or two viruses appeared each year, which suggests the presence of competition among viruses that migrated freely. All segments drifted continuously under certain rules and constant velocity. Viruses that had caused an outbreak did not appear again over subsequent decades, which may mean populations had become immune to such viruses. In contrast, the viruses in livestock were rather conserved and maintained unique strains in small, separate areas. Such collections of swine strains included human segments, which could become an epidemic in the future.
PMID: 31848356 PMCID: PMC6917806 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-55254-z
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Konishi T[SUP]1[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h] 1 Graduate School of Bioresource Sciences, Akita Prefectural University, Akita, Japan. konishi@akita-pu.ac.jp.
[h=3]Abstract[/h] The history of influenza H1 virus was re-evaluated by applying a new methodology to sequencing data; this objective method enables comparisons among viral types. The approach led to the segregation of all segments of swine and human viruses into three distinct groups: two of them included the pandemic 1977 and 2009 human viruses, and the remaining group may be new in humans. These three groups might have originated from avian viruses and drifted out independently. Genome shifts occurred occasionally among swine viruses; however, distances between avian and swine/human viruses negated the existence of direct shifts from avian viruses. In humans, only one or two viruses appeared each year, which suggests the presence of competition among viruses that migrated freely. All segments drifted continuously under certain rules and constant velocity. Viruses that had caused an outbreak did not appear again over subsequent decades, which may mean populations had become immune to such viruses. In contrast, the viruses in livestock were rather conserved and maintained unique strains in small, separate areas. Such collections of swine strains included human segments, which could become an epidemic in the future.
PMID: 31848356 PMCID: PMC6917806 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-55254-z
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