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SUBMITTER: Gagnon CA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2650907 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of clinical microbiology 20081230 3
In 2007, an H3N2 influenza A virus was isolated from Canadian mink. This virus was found to be phylogenetically related to a triple reassortant influenza virus which emerged in Canadian swine in 2005, but it is antigenically distinct. The transmission of the virus from swine to mink seems to have occurred following the feeding of animals with a ration composed of uncooked meat by-products of swine obtained from slaughterhouse facilities. Serological analyses suggest that the mink influenza virus ...[more]