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SUBMITTER: Fusaro A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3147996 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fusaro Alice A Monne Isabella I Salviato Annalisa A Valastro Viviana V Schivo Alessia A Amarin Nadim Mukhles NM Gonzalez Carlos C Ismail Mahmoud Moussa MM Al-Ankari Abdu-Rahman AR Al-Blowi Mohamed Hamad MH Khan Owais Ahmed OA Maken Ali Ali Safar AS Hedayati Afshin A Garcia Garcia Juan J Ziay Ghulam M GM Shoushtari Abdolhamid A Al Qahtani Kassem Nasser KN Capua Ilaria I Holmes Edward C EC Cattoli Giovanni G
Journal of virology 20110615 16
Avian influenza viruses of the H9N2 subtype have seriously affected the poultry industry of the Far and Middle East since the mid-1990s and are considered one of the most likely candidates to cause a new influenza pandemic in humans. To understand the genesis and epidemiology of these viruses, we investigated the spatial and evolutionary dynamics of complete genome sequences of H9N2 viruses circulating in nine Middle Eastern and Central Asian countries from 1998 to 2010. We identified four disti ...[more]