ABSTRACT: Serosurveillance and sequencing of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in cattle to determine prevalence and virus evolution in healthy and affected populations
Project description:Periodic outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian H5N1 influenza viruses and the current H1N1 pandemic highlight the need for a more detailed understanding of influenza virus pathogenesis. To investigate the host transcriptional response induced by pathogenic influenza viruses, we used a functional-genomics approach to compare gene expression profiles in lungs from wild-type 129S6/SvEv and interferon receptor (IFNR) knockout mice infected with either the fully reconstructed H1N1 1918 pandemic virus (1918) or the highly pathogenic avian H5N1 virus Vietnam/1203/04 (VN/1203).
Project description:H5N1 subtype highly pathogenic avian influenza virus has been spreading to Asia, Eurasia and African coutries. An original or six of recombinant H5N1 subtype influenza viruses with varying survivability were infected to chickens for elucidating genes correlated with pathogenicity.
Project description:H5N1 subtype highly pathogenic avian influenza virus has been spreading to Asia, Eurasia and African coutries. An original or six of recombinant H5N1 subtype influenza viruses with varying survivability were infected to chickens for elucidating genes correlated with pathogenicity. Two chickens were infected with each 10^6EID50/ head virus intranasally, and their lung was collected from infected chicken at 24 hours after infection.
Project description:To study miRNA expression profiles during highly pathogenic avian influenza virus infection, we conducted global miRNA expression profiling in human lung epithelial cells (A549) with or without H5N1 IAV infection. .
Project description:PA-X is a small accessory protein that modulates the virulence of various influenza A virus both in mammals and birds. However, the specific role of PA-X in the pathogenesis of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) H7N9 subtype in mammals and avian species is largely unknown. By functional analysis, we want to investigate critical amino acids that contribute to the host shutoff ability of the PA-X protein of the H7N9 virus in 293T cells
Project description:Sanhong Liu, Shigui Ruan & Xinan Zhang. Nonlinear dynamics of avian influenza epidemic models. Mathematical Biosciences 283 (2017).
Avian influenza is a zoonotic disease caused by the transmission of the avian influenza A virus, such as H5N1 and H7N9, from birds to humans. The avian influenza A H5N1 virus has caused more than 500 human infections worldwide with nearly a 60% death rate since it was first reported in Hong Kong in 1997. The four outbreaks of the avian influenza A H7N9 in China from March 2013 to June 2016 have resulted in 580 human cases including 202 deaths with a death rate of nearly 35%. In this paper, we construct two avian influenza bird-to-human transmission models with different growth laws of the avian population, one with logistic growth and the other with Allee effect, and analyze their dynamical behavior. We obtain a threshold value for the prevalence of avian influenza and investigate the local or global asymptotical stability of each equilibrium of these systems by using linear analysis technique or combining Liapunov function method and LaSalle's invariance principle, respectively. Moreover, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the occurrence of periodic solutions in the avian influenza system with Allee effect of the avian population. Numerical simulations are also presented to illustrate the theoretical results.
Project description:Sanhong Liu, Shigui Ruan & Xinan Zhang. Nonlinear dynamics of avian influenza epidemic models. Mathematical Biosciences 283 (2017).
Avian influenza is a zoonotic disease caused by the transmission of the avian influenza A virus, such as H5N1 and H7N9, from birds to humans. The avian influenza A H5N1 virus has caused more than 500 human infections worldwide with nearly a 60% death rate since it was first reported in Hong Kong in 1997. The four outbreaks of the avian influenza A H7N9 in China from March 2013 to June 2016 have resulted in 580 human cases including 202 deaths with a death rate of nearly 35%. In this paper, we construct two avian influenza bird-to-human transmission models with different growth laws of the avian population, one with logistic growth and the other with Allee effect, and analyze their dynamical behavior. We obtain a threshold value for the prevalence of avian influenza and investigate the local or global asymptotical stability of each equilibrium of these systems by using linear analysis technique or combining Liapunov function method and LaSalle's invariance principle, respectively. Moreover, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the occurrence of periodic solutions in the avian influenza system with Allee effect of the avian population. Numerical simulations are also presented to illustrate the theoretical results.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of chicken embryonic fibroblasts (DF-1 cells) comparing the effects of chicken cells transfected with duck RIG-I compared to empty-vector transfected cells following with low or highly pathogenic avian influenza. Goal was to determine the effects of duck RIG-I on influenza-induced immune gene expression.
