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Pandemic Potential Of Reassortant Swine Influenza A Viruses, Christy Brockwell Staats
Pandemic Potential Of Reassortant Swine Influenza A Viruses, Christy Brockwell Staats
Theses and Dissertations (ETD)
Influenza A viruses are capable of causing disease in several species, including birds, humans and swine. Host specificity of the viruses is not absolute, and is influenced by a range of factors. Swine play a pivotal role in the interspecies transmission of influenza A viruses, as they are susceptible to infection with both human and avian strains and have been implicated as a “mixing vessel” for the reassortment of influenza A viruses from different species. The reassortment of influenza A viruses of human and avian origin led to human influenza pandemics in 1957 and 1968.
The dynamics of swine influenza …