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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Tapia R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6062863 | biostudies-other | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Veterinary research 20180727 1
Novel H1N2 and H3N2 swine influenza A viruses (IAVs) were identified in commercial farms in Chile. These viruses contained H1, H3 and N2 sequences, genetically divergent from IAVs described worldwide, associated with pandemic internal genes. Guinea pigs were used as human surrogate to evaluate the infection dynamics of these reassortant viruses, compared with a pandemic H1N1 virus. All viruses replicated and were shed in the upper respiratory tract without prior adaptation although H1N2 viruses ...[more]