H9N2 influenza viruses from birds used in falconry

Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1241-1245

  Wernery, Ulrich ^a   Shanmuganatham, Karthik K ^b   Krylov, Petr S ^b   Joseph, Sunitha ^a   Friedman, Kimberly ^b   Krauss, Scott ^b   Webster, Robert G ^b  

^a CENTRAL VETERINARY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Falconry; Genetic mixing; H9N2 avian influenza viruses; Middle East; White bellied bustard

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; BIRD; CHICKEN; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DYSPNEA; EMBRYO; EYE DISCHARGE; FALCONIFORMES; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H9N2; MIDDLE EAST; NONHUMAN; PHEASANT; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POULTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; RECEPTOR BINDING; TURKEY (BIRD); UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WHITE BELLIED BUSTARD;

FALCONRY; GENETIC MIXING; H9N2 AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUSES; MIDDLE EAST; WHITE-BELLIED BUSTARD;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; BIRDS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H9N2 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 84887166109     PISSN: 17502640     EISSN: 17502659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/irv.12143     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Fusaro A, Monne I, Salviato A et al. Phylogeography and evolutionary history of reassortant H9N2 viruses with potential human health implications. J Virol 2011; 85:8413-8421.
2. Peiris M, Yuen KY, Leung CW et al. Human infection with influenza H9N2. Lancet 1999; 354:916-917.
3. Butt KM, Smith GJ, Chen H et al. Human infection with an avian H9N2 influenza A virus in Hong Kong in 2003. J Clin Microbiol 2005; 43:5760-5767.
4. Cong YL, Pu J, Liu QF et al. Antigenic and genetic characterization of H9N2 swine influenza viruses in China. J Gen Virol 2007; 88(Pt 7):2035-2041.
5. Peiris JS, Guan Y, Markwell D et al. Cocirculation of avian H9N2 and contemporary "human" H3N2 influenza A viruses in pigs in southeastern China: potential for genetic reassortment? J Virol 2001; 75:9679-9686.
6. Matrosovich MN, Krauss S, Webster RG. H9N2 influenza A viruses from poultry in Asia have human virus-like receptor specificity. Virology 2001; 281:156-162.
7. Xu KM, Li KS, Smith GJ et al. Evolution and molecular epidemiology of H9N2 influenza A viruses from quail in southern China, 2000-2005. J Virol 2007; 81:2635-2645.
8. Guan Y, Shortridge KF, Krauss S et al. Molecular characterization of H9N2 influenza viruses: were they the donors of the "internal" genes of H5N1 viruses in Hong Kong? Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1999; 96:9363-9367.
9. Gao R, Cao B, Hu Y et al. Human infection with a novel avian-origin influenza A (H7N9) virus. N Engl J Med 2013; 368:1888-1897.
10. Brown IH, Banks J, Manvell RJ et al. Recent epidemiology and ecology of influenza A viruses in avian species in Europe and the Middle East. Dev Biol (Basel) 2006; 124:45-50.
11. Lee DH, Song CS. H9N2 avian influenza virus in Korea: evolution and vaccination. Clin Exp Vaccine Res 2013; 2:26-33.
12. Abbas MA, Spackman E, Swayne DE et al. Sequence and phylogenetic analysis of H7N3 avian influenza viruses isolated from poultry in Pakistan 1995-2004. Virol J 2010; 7:137.
13. Sorrell EM, Wan H, Araya Y, Song H, Perez DR. Minimal molecular constraints for respiratory droplet transmission of an avian-human H9N2 influenza A virus. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2009; 106:7565-7570.
14. Shaw M, Cooper L, Xu X et al. Molecular changes associated with the transmission of avian influenza a H5N1 and H9N2 viruses to humans. J Med Virol 2002; 66:107-114.
15. Pan C, Cheung B, Tan S et al. Genomic signature and mutation trend analysis of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza A virus. PLoS ONE 2010; 5:e9549.
16. Monne I, Fusaro A, Al-Blowi MH et al. Co-circulation of two sublineages of HPAI H5N1 virus in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with unique molecular signatures suggesting separate introductions into the commercial poultry and falconry sectors. J Gen Virol 2008; 89(Pt 11):2691-2697.
17. Aamir UB, Wernery U, Ilyushina N et al. Characterization of avian H9N2 influenza viruses from United Arab Emirates 2000-2003. Virology 2007; 361:45-55.
18. Bertran K, Busquets N, Abad F et al. Highly (H5N1) and Low (H7N2) Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus Infection in Falcons Via Nasochoanal Route and Ingestion of Experimentally Infected Prey. PLoS ONE 2012; 7:e32107.
19. World Health Organization Global Surveillance Network. Manual for the laboratory diagnosis and virologic surveillance of influenza. 2011. Available at http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2011/9789241548090_eng.pdf (Accessed 6 November 2013).