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Novel reassortant influenza viruses between pandemic (H1N1) 2009 and other influenza viruses pose a risk to public health

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Microb Pathog. 2015 Sep 4. pii: S0882-4010(15)00148-5. doi: 10.1016/j.micpath.2015.09.002. [Epub ahead of print]
Novel reassortant influenza viruses between pandemic (H1N1) 2009 and other influenza viruses pose a risk to public health.

Kong W[SUP]1[/SUP], Wang F[SUP]2[/SUP], Dong B[SUP]1[/SUP], Ou C[SUP]3[/SUP], Meng D[SUP]1[/SUP], Liu J[SUP]4[/SUP], Fan ZC[SUP]5[/SUP].
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Abstract

Influenza A virus (IAV) is characterized by eight single-stranded, negative sense RNA segments, which allows for gene reassortment among different IAV subtypes when they co-infect a single host cell simultaneously. Genetic reassortment is an important way to favor the evolution of influenza virus. Novel reassortant virus may pose a pandemic among humans. In history, three human pandemic influenza viruses were caused by genetic reassortment between avian, human and swine influenza viruses. Since 2009, pandemic (H1N1) 2009 (pdm/09 H1N1) influenza virus composed of two swine influenza virus genes highlighted the genetic reassortment again. Due to wide host species and high transmission of pdm/09 H1N1 influenza virus, many different avian, human or swine influenza virus subtypes may reassert with it to generate novel reassortant viruses, which may result in a next pandemic among humans. So, it is necessary to understand the potential threat of current reassortant viruses between the pdm/09 H1N1 and other influenza viruses to public health. This study summarized the status of the reassortant viruses between the pdm/09 H1N1 and other influenza viruses of different species origins in natural and experimental conditions. The aim of this summarization is to facilitate us to further understand the potential threats of novel reassortant influenza viruses to public health and to make effective prevention and control strategies for these pathogens.
Copyright ? 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.


KEYWORDS:

Canine influenza; Human influenza; Pdm/09 H1N1; Reassortant; Swine influenza

PMID: 26344393 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
 
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