Dynamics of virus shedding and antibody responses in influenza A virus-infected feral swine.
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SUBMITTER: Sun H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4857451 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
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Dynamics of virus shedding and antibody responses in influenza A virus-infected feral swine.
Sun Hailiang H Cunningham Fred L FL Harris Jillian J Xu Yifei Y Long Li-Ping LP Hanson-Dorr Katie K Baroch John A JA Fioranelli Paul P Lutman Mark W MW Li Tao T Pedersen Kerri K Schmit Brandon S BS Cooley Jim J Lin Xiaoxu X Jarman Richard G RG DeLiberto Thomas J TJ Wan Xiu-Feng XF
The Journal of general virology 20150625 9
Given their free-ranging habits, feral swine could serve as reservoirs or spatially dynamic 'mixing vessels' for influenza A virus (IAV). To better understand virus shedding patterns and antibody response dynamics in the context of IAV surveillance amongst feral swine, we used IAV of feral swine origin to perform infection experiments. The virus was highly infectious and transmissible in feral swine, and virus shedding patterns and antibody response dynamics were similar to those in domestic swi ...[more]
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