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Triple Reassortant Swine Influenza A (H3N2) Virus in Waterfowl

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Editor, Senior Moderator
Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Apr;16(4):728-30.
Triple Reassortant Swine Influenza A (H3N2) Virus in Waterfowl.

Ramakrishnan MA, Wang P, Abin M, Yang M, Goyal SM, Gramer MR, Redig P, Fuhrman MW, Sreevatsan S.

University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA (M.A. Ramakrishnan, P. Wang, M. Abin, M. Yang, S.M. Goyal, M.R. Gramer, P. Redig, S. Sreevatsan); and Sioux Nation Agriculture Center of Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA (M.W. Fuhrman).

To the Editor: In 1998, a new lineage of triple reassortant influenza A (H3N2) virus (TR-H3N2) with genes from humans (hemmaglutinin [HA], neuraminidase [NA], and polymerase basic 1 [PB1]), swine (matrix [M], nonstructural [NS], and nucleoprotein [NP]), and birds (polymerase acidic [PA] and PB2) emerged in the U.S. swine population. Subsequently, similar viruses were isolated from turkeys (1,2), minks, and humans in the United States and Canada (3,4). In 2007, our national influenza surveillance resulted in isolation of 4 swine-like TR-H3N2 viruses from migratory waterfowl (3 from mallards [Anas platyrrhynchos] and 1 from a northern pintail [Anas acuta] of 266 birds sampled) in north-central South Dakota. We report on the characterization of these TR-H3N2 viruses and hypothesize about their potential for interspecies transmission.

PMID: 20350405 [PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20350405?dopt=Abstract
 
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