Emerging Infectious Diseases (Apr 2011)

Rapid Genotyping of Swine Influenza Viruses

  • Polly W.Y. Mak,
  • Chloe K.S. Wong,
  • Olive T.W. Li,
  • Kwok Hung Chan,
  • Chung Lam Cheung,
  • Edward S. Ma,
  • Richard J. Webby,
  • Yi Guan,
  • Joseph S. Malik Peiris,
  • Leo L.M. Poon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1704.101726
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 4
pp. 691 – 694

Abstract

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The emergence of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus highlighted the need for enhanced surveillance of swine influenza viruses. We used real-time reverse–transcription PCR–based genotyping and found that this rapid and simple genotyping method may identify reassortants derived from viruses of Eurasian avian-like, triple reassortant-like, and pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus lineages.

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