Genetic characterization of H3N2 influenza viruses isolated from pigs in North America, 1977–1999: evidence for wholly human and reassortant virus genotypes

Since 1998, H3N2 viruses have caused epizootics of respiratory disease in pigs throughout the major swine production regions of the U.S. These outbreaks are remarkable because swine influenza in North America had previously been caused almost exclusively by H1N1 viruses. We sequenced the full-length...

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Published in:Virus research 2000-06, Vol.68 (1), p.71-85
Main Authors: Karasin, Alexander I, Schutten, Melissa M, Cooper, Lynn A, Smith, Catherine B, Subbarao, Kanta, Anderson, Gary A, Carman, Suzanne, Olsen, Christopher W
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Genotype
H3N2
Humans
Influenza A virus
Influenza A virus - classification
Influenza A virus - genetics
Influenza A Virus, H3N2 Subtype
Influenza virus
Influenza, Human - veterinary
Influenza, Human - virology
Molecular Sequence Data
North America
Phylogenetic analysis
Phylogeny
Pig
pigs
Reassortant Viruses - genetics
Reassortment
Swine
Swine Diseases - virology
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Summary:Since 1998, H3N2 viruses have caused epizootics of respiratory disease in pigs throughout the major swine production regions of the U.S. These outbreaks are remarkable because swine influenza in North America had previously been caused almost exclusively by H1N1 viruses. We sequenced the full-length protein coding regions of all eight RNA segments from four H3N2 viruses that we isolated from pigs in the Midwestern U.S. between March 1998 and March 1999, as well as from H3N2 viruses recovered from a piglet in Canada in January 1997 and from a pig in Colorado in 1977. Phylogenetic analyses demonstrated that the 1977 Colorado and 1997 Ontario isolates are wholly human influenza viruses. However, the viruses isolated since 1998 from pigs in the Midwestern U.S. are reassortant viruses containing hemagglutinin, neuraminidase and PB1 polymerase genes from human influenza viruses, matrix, non-structural and nucleoprotein genes from classical swine viruses, and PA and PB2 polymerase genes from avian viruses. The HA proteins of the Midwestern reassortant swine viruses can be differentiated from those of the 1995 lineage of human H3 viruses by 12 amino acid mutations in HA1. In contrast, the Sw/ONT/97 virus, which did not spread from pig-to-pig, lacks 11 of these changes.
ISSN:0168-1702
1872-7492
DOI:10.1016/S0168-1702(00)00154-4