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SUBMITTER: Garten RJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3250984 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20090522 5937
Since its identification in April 2009, an A(H1N1) virus containing a unique combination of gene segments from both North American and Eurasian swine lineages has continued to circulate in humans. The lack of similarity between the 2009 A(H1N1) virus and its nearest relatives indicates that its gene segments have been circulating undetected for an extended period. Its low genetic diversity suggests that the introduction into humans was a single event or multiple events of similar viruses. Molecu ...[more]