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Reassortment events among swine influenza A viruses in China: implications for the origin of the 2009 influenza pandemic.
Journal of virology - 1 Oct 2011
Lam Tommy Tsan-Yuk, Zhu Huachen, Wang Jia, Smith David K, Holmes Edward C, Webster Robert G, Webby Richard, Peiris Joseph M, Guan Yi
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That pigs may play a pivotal role in the emergence of pandemic influenza was indicated by the recent H1N1/2009 human pandemic, likely caused by a reassortant between viruses of the American triple-reassortant (TR) and Eurasian avian-like (EA) swine influenza lineages. As China has the largest human and pig populations in the world and is the only place where both TR and EA viruses have been reported to...
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