Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jiang, Wenming
• Hou, Guangyu
• Li, Jinping
• Peng, Cheng
• Wang, Suchun
• Liu, Shuo
• Zhuang, Qingye
• Yuan, Liping
• Yu, Xiaohui
• Li, Yang
• Wang, Jingjing
• Liu, Hualei

Titel

Antigenic Variant of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Virus, China, 2019

Ist Teil von

• Emerging infectious diseases, 2020-02, Vol.26 (2), p.379-380

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In China, influenza A(H7N9) virus appeared in 2013, then mutated into a highly pathogenic virus, causing outbreaks among poultry and cases in humans. Since September 2017, extensive use of the corresponding vaccine, H7-Re1, successfully reduced virus prevalence. However, in 2019, a novel antigenic variant emerged, posing considerable economic and public health threats.A.