College of Animal Science and Technology, Guangxi University, No.100 Daxue Road, Nanning, 530004, China.
Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, USA.
Emerg Microbes Infect. 2018 May 16;7(1):85. doi: 10.1038/s41426-018-0088-z.
Considered a "mixing vessel" for influenza viruses, pigs can give rise to new influenza virus reassortants that can threaten humans. During our surveillance of pigs in Guangxi, China from 2013 to 2015, we isolated 11 H1N1 and three H3N2 influenza A viruses of swine origin (IAVs-S). Out of the 14, we detected ten novel triple-reassortant viruses, which contained surface genes (hemagglutinin and neuraminidase) from Eurasian avian-like (EA) H1N1 or seasonal human-like H3N2, matrix (M) genes from H1N1/2009 pandemic or EA H1N1, nonstructural (NS) genes from classical swine, and the remaining genes from H1N1/2009 pandemic. Mouse studies indicate that these IAVs-S replicate efficiently without prior adaptation, with some isolates demonstrating lethality. Notably, the reassortant EA H1N1 viruses with EA-like M gene have been reported in human infections. Further investigations will help to assess the potential risk of these novel triple-reassortant viruses to humans.
猪被认为是流感病毒的“混合容器”,可以产生新的流感病毒重配体,从而威胁人类。在 2013 年至 2015 年期间,我们对中国广西的猪进行监测时,从猪身上分离出 11 株 H1N1 和 3 株 H3N2 流感 A 病毒(IAVs-S)。在这 14 株病毒中,我们检测到 10 株新型三重重配病毒,它们包含源自欧亚类禽(EA)H1N1 或季节性人源 H3N2 的表面基因(血凝素和神经氨酸酶)、源自 H1N1/2009 大流行或 EA H1N1 的基质(M)基因、源自经典猪源的非结构(NS)基因,以及源自 H1N1/2009 大流行的其余基因。小鼠研究表明,这些 IAVs-S 可以在没有预先适应的情况下有效地复制,其中一些分离株具有致死性。值得注意的是,具有 EA 样 M 基因的 EA H1N1 重配病毒已在人类感染中报道。进一步的研究将有助于评估这些新型三重重配病毒对人类的潜在风险。