Swine-to-human transmission of influenza A(H3N2) virus at agricultural fairs, Ohio, USA, 2012

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1472-1480

  Bowman, Andrew S ^a   Nelson, Sarah W ^a   Page, Shannon L ^b   Nolting, Jacqueline M ^a   Killian, Mary L ^c   Sreevatsan, Srinand ^d   Slemons, Richard D ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HN PROTEIN; INFLUENZA VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ; VIRUS SIALIDASE; NA PROTEIN, INFLUENZA A VIRUS; SIALIDASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N2; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SWINE INFLUENZA VIRUS; UNITED STATES; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS HEMAGGLUTINATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; PIG; RISK FACTOR; SWINE DISEASES; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; HEMAGGLUTININ GLYCOPROTEINS, INFLUENZA VIRUS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H3N2 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURAMINIDASE; OHIO; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84906276368     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2009.131082     Document Type: Article

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