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Detection and characterization of an H4N6 avian-lineage influenza A virus in pigs in the Midwestern United States.
Virology - 1 Nov 2017
Abente Eugenio J, Gauger Phillip C, Walia Rasna R, Rajao Daniela S, Zhang Jianqiang, Harmon Karen M, Killian Mary Lea, Vincent Amy L
Abstract excerpt
H4Nx viruses were reported in swine in Canada and China, but had not been recognized in swine in the USA. In late 2015, an avian-origin H4N6 influenza A virus was isolated from pigs in the United States during a routine diagnostic investigation of clinical respiratory disease in the herd. Serological analysis from additional pigs at the farm and other pigs within the swine production system indicated that the...
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