• FluTrackers.com Inc. does not provide medical advice. Information on this web site is collected from various internet resources, and the FluTrackers board of directors makes no warranty to the safety, efficacy, correctness or completeness of the information posted on this site by any author or poster. The information collated here is for instructional and/or discussion purposes only and is NOT intended to diagnose or treat any disease, illness, or other medical condition. Every individual reader or poster should seek advice from their personal physician/healthcare practitioner before considering or using any interventions that are discussed on this website. By continuing to access this website you agree to consult your personal physican before using any interventions posted on this website, and you agree to hold harmless FluTrackers.com Inc., the board of directors, the members, and all authors and posters for any effects from use of any medication, supplement, vitamin or other substance, device, intervention, etc. mentioned in posts on this website, or other internet venues referenced in posts on this website.
  • We are not asking for any donations. Do not donate to any entity who says they are raising funds for us.

Novel reassortant H5N5 viruses bind to a human-type receptor as a factor in pandemic risk

tetano

Editor, Senior Moderator
Vet Microbiol. 2014 Dec 24. pii: S0378-1135(14)00555-0. doi: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2014.11.030. [Epub ahead of print]
[h=1]Novel reassortant H5N5 viruses bind to a human-type receptor as a factor in pandemic risk.[/h] Li Q[SUP]1[/SUP], Wang X[SUP]1[/SUP], Gao Z[SUP]1[/SUP], Sun Z[SUP]1[/SUP], Cui Z[SUP]1[/SUP], Duan Z[SUP]1[/SUP], Li J[SUP]1[/SUP], Gu M[SUP]1[/SUP], Wang X[SUP]2[/SUP], Hu J[SUP]2[/SUP], Liu X[SUP]2[/SUP], Liu X[SUP]3[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h]

[h=3]Abstract[/h] Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(HPAI) H5N1 viruses pose a serious pandemic threat due to their virulence and high mortality in humans, and their increasingly expanding host range and significant ongoing evolution could enhance their human-to-human transmissibility. Recently, various reassortant viruses were detected in different domestic poultry, with the HA gene derived from the A/goose/Guangdong/1/96-like (Gs/GD-like) lineage and the NA gene from influenza viruses of other subtypes. It is reported that some natural reassortant H5N5 highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses were isolated from poultry in China. And their HA genes were belonged to a new clade 2.3.4.4. We evaluated the receptor binding property and transmissibility in guinea pigs of these reassortant H5N5 HPAIVs. The results showed that these viruses bound to both avian-type (α-2,3) and human-type (α-2,6) receptors. In addition, we found that one of these viruses, 031, not only replicated but also transmitted efficiently in guinea pigs. Therefore, such reassortant influenza viruses may pose a pandemic threat.
Copyright ? 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] Avian influenza virus; H5N5; Reassortant; Receptor binding; Transmissibility

PMID: 25575877 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25575877
 
Back
Top Bottom