We read with interest a recent letter in the Journal of Infection, which reported
the emergence of novel H5N6 reassortant and it's threat to both birds and humans.
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Pigs are susceptible to human, swine, and avian influenza A viruses (IAVs) and considered
as intermediate hosts or “mixing vessels” for generating novel viruses with pandemic
potential.
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Moreover, China has a complicated ecosystem of swine influenza viruses (SIVs) in
which H1N1, H1N2, and H3N2 subtypes with classical swine (CS), North America triple-reassortant
(TR), Eurasian avian-like (EA), and H1N1 pandemic/2009 (pdm/09) lineages are co-circulating
throughout the swine population. This co-circulation has led to frequent emergence
of novel reassortments or genotypes.
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In this study, we report a novel influenza virus A(H1N2) virus, A/swine/Henan/417/2021(H1N2)
(HN/21) that was isolated from a swine farm in December 12, 2021 in Henan, China.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Publication history
Published online: September 10, 2022
Accepted:
September 6,
2022
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