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Rapid genotyping of swine influenza viruses.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Apr 2011
Mak Polly W Y, Wong Chloe K S, Li Olive T W, Chan Kwok Hung, Cheung Chung Lam, Ma Edward S, Webby Richard J, Guan Yi, Malik Peiris Joseph S, Poon Leo L M
Abstract excerpt
The emergence of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus highlighted the need for enhanced surveillance of swine influenza viruses. We used real-time reverse-transcription PCR-based genotyping and found that this rapid and simple genotyping method may identify reassortants derived from viruses of Eurasian avian-like, triple reassortant-like, and pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus lineages.
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