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Detection of highly pathogenic zoonotic influenza virus H5N6 by reverse-transcriptase quantitative polymerase chain reaction

Overview of attention for article published in Virology Journal, February 2015
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Title
Detection of highly pathogenic zoonotic influenza virus H5N6 by reverse-transcriptase quantitative polymerase chain reaction
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Virology Journal, February 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12985-015-0250-3
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Hans G Heine, Adam J Foord, Jianning Wang, Stacey Valdeter, Som Walker, Chris Morrissy, Frank YK Wong, Brian Meehan

Abstract

Variant high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H5 viruses have recently emerged as a result of reassortment of the H5 haemagglutinin (HA) gene with different neuraminidase (NA) genes, including NA1, NA2, NA5, NA6 and NA8. These viruses form a newly proposed HA clade 2.3.4.4 (previously provisionally referred to as clade 2.3.4.6), and have been implicated in disease outbreaks in poultry in China, South Korea, Laos, Japan and Vietnam and a human fatality in China. There is real concern that this new clade may be wide spread and not readily identified using existing diagnostic algorithms. Fluorescent probe based reverse-transcriptase quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) assays were developed to facilitate the identification of novel clade 2.3.4.4 viruses of H5N6 subtype emerging in Asia. Assays were aimed at the haemagglutinin (HA) gene for clade identification and at the NA gene to identify N6. The HA assay employing a minor groove binder (MGB) probe was able to detect and differentiate A/duck/Laos/XBY004/2014(H5N6) and related influenza A(H5N6) virus isolates belonging to the proposed clade 2.3.4.4 from other H5 HPAI viruses. In addition, an Eurasian N6 assay was able to differentiate N6 from other NA subtypes. Laos influenza A(H5N6) virus representative of proposed clade 2.3.4.4, was detected and differentiated from viruses in other H5N1 clades using a clade-specific HA RT-qPCR assay whereas the N6-NA subtype was determined by an Eurasian N6 RT-qPCR assay. Such a clade-specific assay would be of particular value for surveillance and in diagnostic laboratories where sequencing is not readily available.

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Unknown 60 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 10 17%
Student > Bachelor 9 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 15%
Student > Master 9 15%
Student > Postgraduate 3 5%
Other 6 10%
Unknown 14 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 11 18%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 17%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 8%
Immunology and Microbiology 5 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 8%
Other 8 13%
Unknown 16 27%
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#14
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