Zoonotic potential of influenza A viruses: a comprehensive overview

A Mostafa, EM Abdelwhab, TC Mettenleiter, S Pleschka - Viruses, 2018 - mdpi.com
Influenza A viruses (IAVs) possess a great zoonotic potential as they are able to infect
different avian and mammalian animal hosts, from which they can be transmitted to humans …

A brief history of bird flu

SJ Lycett, F Duchatel, P Digard - … Transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In 1918, a strain of influenza A virus caused a human pandemic resulting in the deaths of 50
million people. A century later, with the advent of sequencing technology and corresponding …

Rapid evolution of H7N9 highly pathogenic viruses that emerged in China in 2017

J Shi, G Deng, S Ma, X Zeng, X Yin, M Li, B Zhang… - Cell host & …, 2018 - cell.com
H7N9 low pathogenic influenza viruses emerged in China in 2013 and mutated to highly
pathogenic strains in 2017, resulting in human infections and disease in chickens. To control …

The phylogenomics of evolving virus virulence

JL Geoghegan, EC Holmes - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
How virulence evolves after a virus jumps to a new host species is central to disease
emergence. Our current understanding of virulence evolution is based on insights drawn …

Genetic and biological characteristics of the globally circulating H5N8 avian influenza viruses and the protective efficacy offered by the poultry vaccine currently used …

P Cui, X Zeng, X Li, Y Li, J Shi, C Zhao, Z Qu… - Science China Life …, 2022 - Springer
The H5N8 avian influenza viruses have been widely circulating in wild birds and are
responsible for the loss of over 33 million domestic poultry in Europe, Russia, Middle East …

The pandemic threat of emerging H5 and H7 avian influenza viruses

TC Sutton - Viruses, 2018 - mdpi.com
The 1918 H1N1 Spanish Influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in modern
history. Unlike more recent pandemics, most of the 1918 H1N1 virus' genome was derived …

Genetic and biological properties of H7N9 avian influenza viruses detected after application of the H7N9 poultry vaccine in China

X Yin, G Deng, X Zeng, P Cui, Y Hou, Y Liu… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The H7N9 avian influenza virus (AIV) that emerged in China have caused five waves of
human infection. Further human cases have been successfully prevented since September …

Dominant subtype switch in avian influenza viruses during 2016–2019 in China

Y Bi, J Li, S Li, G Fu, T Jin, C Zhang, Y Yang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
We have surveyed avian influenza virus (AIV) genomes from live poultry markets within
China since 2014. Here we present a total of 16,091 samples that were collected from May …

Vaccination of poultry successfully eliminated human infection with H7N9 virus in China

X Zeng, G Tian, J Shi, G Deng, C Li, H Chen - Science China Life …, 2018 - Springer
The H7N9 viruses that emerged in China in 2013 were nonpathogenic in chickens but
mutated to a highly pathogenic form in early 2017 and caused severe disease outbreaks in …

Pathobiological origins and evolutionary history of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses

DH Lee, MF Criado, DE Swayne - Cold Spring …, 2021 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
High-pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) viruses have arisen from low-pathogenicity avian
influenza (LPAI) viruses via changes in the hemagglutinin proteolytic cleavage site, which …