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SUBMITTER: Choi YK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3323362 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Choi Young K YK Lee Jee H JH Erickson Gene G Goyal Sagar M SM Joo Han S HS Webster Robert G RG Webby Richard J RJ
Emerging infectious diseases 20041201 12
In 1998, a novel H3N2 reassortant virus emerged in the United States swine population. We report the interspecies transmission of this virus to turkeys in two geographically distant farms in the United States in 2003. This event is of concern, considering the reassortment capacity of this virus and the susceptibility of turkey to infection by avian influenza viruses. Two H3N2 isolates, A/turkey/NC/16108/03 and A/turkey/MN/764/03, had 98.0% to 99.9% nucleotide sequence identity to each other in a ...[more]