Journal article
Population susceptibility to a variant swine-origin influenza virus A(H3N2) in Vietnam, 2011–2012
LNM HOA, JE BRYANT, M CHOISY, LA NGUYET, NT BAO, NH TRANG, NTK CHUC, TK TOAN, T SAITO, N TAKEMAE, P HORBY, H WERTHEIM, A FOX
Epidemiology and Infection | CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS | Published : 2015
Abstract
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A reassortant swine-origin A(H3N2) virus (A/swine/BinhDuong/03-9/2010) was detected through swine surveillance programmes in southern Vietnam in 2010. This virus contains haemagglutinin and neuraminidase genes from a human A(H3N2) virus circulating around 2004–2006, and the internal genes from triple-reassortant swine influenza A viruses (IAVs). To assess population susceptib..
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Awarded by Wellcome Trust of Great Britain VIZIONS project
Funding Acknowledgements
M.C. is supported by the 'Biodiversity and Infectious Diseases in Southeast Asia' GDRI. T.S. and N.T. are supported by a programme of the Japan Initiative for Global Research Network on Infectious Diseases (J-GRID) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) of Japan. The authors thank Dr Sabrina L. Swenson, National Veterinary Services Laboratories, Ames, IA, USA, for providing A/swine/Indiana/A00968373/2012 (H3N2v). Funding was obtained from the Wellcome Trust of Great Britain VIZIONS project (WT/093724).