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SUBMITTER: Bravo-Vasquez N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7706983 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bravo-Vasquez Nicolas N Yao Jiangwei J Jimenez-Bluhm Pedro P Meliopoulos Victoria V Freiden Pamela P Sharp Bridgett B Estrada Leonardo L Davis Amy A Cherry Sean S Livingston Brandi B Danner Angela A Schultz-Cherry Stacey S Hamilton-West Christopher C
Emerging infectious diseases 20201201 12
Since their discovery in the United States in 1963, outbreaks of infection with equine influenza virus (H3N8) have been associated with serious respiratory disease in horses worldwide. Genomic analysis suggests that equine H3 viruses are of an avian lineage, likely originating in wild birds. Equine-like internal genes have been identified in avian influenza viruses isolated from wild birds in the Southern Cone of South America. However, an equine-like H3 hemagglutinin has not been identified. We ...[more]