ZHANG XC, Liu S, Hou GY, Zhuang QY, et al. Comparison of three media for transport and storage of the samples collected for detection of avian influenza virus. J Virol Methods. 2015 Jul 6;222:202-205. Abstract
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Detection of avian influenza viruses (AIVs) is important for diagnosis, surveillance and control of avian influenza which is of great economic and public health significance. Proper transport and storage ... VAN DER VRIES E, Ip DK, Cowling BJ, Zhang JD, et a. Outcomes and Susceptibility to Neuraminidase Inhibitors in Individuals Infected with Different Influenza B Lineages: the Influenza Resistance Information Study. J Infect Dis. 2015 Jul 9. pii: jiv375. Abstract
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BACKGROUND:
?Little is known about how influenza infections caused by B/Victoria and B/Yamagata virus lineages compare with respect to disease course and susceptibility to antiviral therapy.
METHODS: ... KWIT K, Pomorska-Mol M, Markowska-Daniel I. Pregnancy outcome and clinical status of gilts following experimental infection by H1N2, H3N2 and H1N1pdm09 influenza A viruses during the last month of gestation. Arch Virol. 2015 Jul 11. Abstract
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The present study was planned to study the effect of various subtypes of swine influenza virus (SIV) circulating among pigs (H1N2, H3N2 and emerging pandemic strain of H1N1 influenza A virus (H1N1pdm09) ... RIDENOUR C, Williams SM, Jones L, Tompkins SM, et. Serial passage in ducks of a low-pathogenic avian influenza virus isolated from a chicken reveals a high mutation rate in the hemagglutinin that is likely due to selection in the host. Arch Virol. 2015 Jul 16.. Abstract
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A comparative study of the ability of three low-pathogenic avian influenza virus (LPAIV) isolates to be transmitted from duck to duck was performed. Pekin ducks were inoculated with two LPAIV isolates ... PAN M, Gao R, Lu Q, Huang S, et al. Human infection with a novel highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N6) virus: Virological and clinical findings. J Infect 2015 Jul 1. pii: S0163-4453(15)00220. Abstract
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OBJECTIVES: Human severe infection with avian influenza A (H5N6) virus infection was identified firstly in 2014 in China. It was unknown or unclear on the disease or the pathogen by people. This study ... ZHOU X, Li Y, Wang Y, Edwards J, et al. The role of live poultry movement and live bird market biosecurity in the epidemiology of influenza A (H7N9): a cross-sectional observational study in four eastern China provinces. J Infect. 2015 Jul 3. pii: S0163-4453(15)00223-6.. Abstract
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BACKGROUND:
A new reassortant influenza A (H7N9) virus emerged early 2013 in eastern China. Exposure to H7N9 infected poultry at live bird markets (LBM) was implicated as the main risk factor for human ... Fujimoto Y, Ito H, Tomita M, Ono E, et al.. Amino acid substitution at position 44 of matrix protein 2 of an avirulent H5 avian influenza virus is crucial for acquiring the highly pathogenic phenotype in chickens. Arch Virol 2015.. Abstract
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The pathogenicity of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses is dependent on multiple factors, but the sequence at the HA cleavage site plays the most important role. To better understand the ... Gnirss K, Zmora P, Blazejewska P, Winkler M, et al. Tetherin sensitivity of influenza A viruses is strain specific: Role of hemagglutinin and neuraminidase. J Virol 2015 Jun 24. pii: JVI.00615. Abstract
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The expression of the antiviral host cell factor tetherin is induced by interferon and can inhibit the release of enveloped viruses from infected cells. The Vpu protein of HIV-1 antagonizes the antiviral ... Abe H, Mine J, Parchariyanon S, Takemae N, et al. Co-infection of influenza A viruses of swine contributes to effective shuffling of gene segments in a naturally reared pig. Virology 2015;484:203-212. Abstract
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Following the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, surveillance activities have been accelerated globally to monitor the emergence of novel reassortant viruses. However, the mechanism by which influenza A viruses of swine ... Jiang L, Lee VJ, Lim WY, Chen MI, Chen Y, Tan L, L. Performance of case definitions for influenza surveillance. Euro Surveill. 2015;20(22):pii=21145. Abstract
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Influenza-like illness (ILI) case definitions, such as those from the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization (WHO) and United States Centers for Disease Control and ... Hanna A, Banks J, Marston DA, Ellis RJ, Brookes SM. Genetic Characterization of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N8) Virus from Domestic Ducks, England, November 2014. Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 May. Abstract
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Genetic sequences of a highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N8) virus in England have high homology to those detected in mainland Europe and Asia during 2014. Genetic characterization suggests this virus ... Feng KH, Gonzalez G, Deng L, Yu H, et al.. Equine and canine influenza H3N8 viruses show minimal biological differences despite phylogenetic divergence. J Virol 2015 Apr 22. pii: JVI.00521. Abstract
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The A/H3N8 canine influenza virus (CIV) emerged from A/H3N8 equine influenza virus (EIV) around the year 2000 through the transfer of a single virus from horses to dogs. We defined and compared the biological ... Cheng Z, Zhou J, To KK, Chu H, et al. The identification of TMPRSS2 as the susceptible gene for severe illness of 2009 pandemic A(H1N1) influenza and infection of A(H7N9) influenza. J Infect Dis 2015. Abstract
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The genetic predisposition to severe A(H1N1)pdm09 influenza was evaluated in 409 patients including 162 severe cases and 247 mild controls. We prioritized candidate variants based on the result of a pilot ... Lewis NS, Verhagen JH, Javakhishvili Z, Russell CA. Influenza A virus evolution and spatio-temporal dynamics in Eurasian Wild Birds: A phylogenetic and phylogeographic study of whole-genome sequence data. J Gen Virol 2015 Apr 22. pii: vir.0.000155. doi:. Abstract
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Low pathogenic avian influenza A viruses have a natural host reservoir in wild waterbirds and the potential to spread to other host species. Here we investigate the evolutionary, spatial and temporal dynamics ... Tse LV, Whittaker GR.. Modification of the hemagglutinin cleavage site allows indirect activation of avian influenza virus H9N2 by bacterial staphylokinase. Virology. 2015 Apr 1;482:1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.virol. Abstract
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Influenza H9N2 is considered to be a low pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI) virus that commonly infects avian species and can also infect humans. In 1996, the influenza virus, A/chicken/Korea/MS96-CE6/1996/H9N2 ... Ramey AM, Reeves AB, Sonsthagen SA, TeSlaa JL, et. Dispersal of H9N2 influenza A viruses between East Asia and North America by wild birds. Virology 2015;482:79-83. Abstract
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Samples were collected from wild birds in western Alaska to assess dispersal of influenza A viruses between East Asia and North America. Two isolates shared nearly identical nucleotide identity at eight ... Wei S-H, Yang J-R, Wu HS, etc., al. Human infection with avian influenza A H6N1 virus: an epidemiological analysis. The Lancet Volume 1, No. 10, p771–778, December 20. Abstract
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Background
Avian influenza A H6N1 virus is one of the most common viruses isolated from wild and domestic avian species, but human infection with this virus has not been previously reported. We report ... Netanel Tzarum, Robert P. de Vries, Xueyong Zhu, W. Structure and Receptor Binding of the Hemagglutinin from a Human H6N1 Influenza Virus. Cell Host & Microbe, Volume 17, Issue 3, 11 March. Abstract
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Avian influenza viruses that cause infection and are transmissible in humans involve changes in the receptor binding site (RBS) of the viral hemagglutinin (HA) that alter receptor preference from α2-3-linked ... Heng Zhang, Robert P. de Vries, Netanel Tzarum, Xu. A Human-Infecting H10N8 Influenza Virus Retains a Strong Preference for Avian-type Receptors. Cell Host & Microbe, Volume 17, Issue 3, 11 March. Abstract
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Recent avian-origin H10N8 influenza A viruses that have infected humans pose a potential pandemic threat. Alterations in the viral surface glycoprotein, hemagglutinin (HA), typically are required for influenza ... Lam TT-Y, Zhou B, Wang J et al.. Dissemination, divergence and establishment of H7N9 influenza viruses in China. Nature Letter doi:10.1038/nature14348. Abstract
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