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SUBMITTER: Ducatez MF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4388795 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Veterinary microbiology 20150304 1-2
We collected 325 nasal swabs from freshly slaughtered previously healthy pigs from October 2012 through January 2014 in a slaughterhouse near Lomé in Togo. Influenza A virus genome was detected by RT-PCR in 2.5-12.3% of the pooled samples, and results of hemagglutinin subtyping RT-PCR assays showed the virus in all the positive pools to be A(H1N1)pdm09. Virus was isolated on MDCK cells from a representative specimen, A/swine/Togo/ONA32/2013(H1N1). The isolate was fully sequenced and harbored eig ...[more]