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SUBMITTER: Noh JY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7019062 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Microbiology resource announcements 20200213 7
Cases of human infection with a swine influenza A virus variant have been reported in the United States, and since 2011, H3N2 variant viruses have also been regularly isolated from swine in the Republic of Korea. Here, we genetically characterized an influenza A H3N2 isolate (A/swine/P17-4/2017). BLASTN analysis of the 8 gene sequences revealed a high degree of nucleotide similarity (97.0 to 99.0%) to porcine strains circulating in the Republic of Korea and the United States. Specifically, we fo ...[more]