Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Vijaykrishna D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3569847 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20100601 5985
The emergence of pandemic H1N1/2009 influenza demonstrated that pandemic viruses could be generated in swine. Subsequent reintroduction of H1N1/2009 to swine has occurred in multiple countries. Through systematic surveillance of influenza viruses in swine from a Hong Kong abattoir, we characterize a reassortant progeny of H1N1/2009 with swine viruses. Swine experimentally infected with this reassortant developed mild illness and transmitted infection to contact animals. Continued reassortment of ...[more]