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SUBMITTER: Lam TT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3196454 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lam Tommy Tsan-Yuk TT Zhu Huachen H Wang Jia J Smith David K DK Holmes Edward C EC Webster Robert G RG Webby Richard R Peiris Joseph M JM Guan Yi Y
Journal of virology 20110727 19
That pigs may play a pivotal role in the emergence of pandemic influenza was indicated by the recent H1N1/2009 human pandemic, likely caused by a reassortant between viruses of the American triple-reassortant (TR) and Eurasian avian-like (EA) swine influenza lineages. As China has the largest human and pig populations in the world and is the only place where both TR and EA viruses have been reported to cocirculate, it is potentially the source of the H1N1/2009 pandemic virus. To examine this, th ...[more]