Animal coronaviruses and SARS‐CoV‐2

G Zhang, B Li, D Yoo, T Qin, X Zhang… - Transboundary and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
COVID‐19 is a highly contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2). It has rapidly spread to 216 countries and territories since first …

A review of the influence of environmental pollutants microplastics, pesticides, antibiotics, air pollutants, viruses and bacteria on animal viruses

T Li, R Liu, Q Wang, J Rao, Y Liu, Z Dai… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
Microorganisms, especially viruses, cause disease in both humans and animals.
Environmental chemical pollutants including microplastics, pesticides, antibiotic sand …

Coinfection of chickens with H9N2 and H7N9 avian influenza viruses leads to emergence of reassortant H9N9 virus with increased fitness for poultry and a zoonotic …

S Bhat, J James, JR Sadeyen, S Mahmood… - Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
An H7N9 low-pathogenicity avian influenza virus (LPAIV) emerged in 2013 through genetic
reassortment between H9N2 and other LPAIVs circulating in birds in China. This virus …

Vaccination decreases the risk of influenza A virus reassortment but not genetic variation in pigs

C Li, MR Culhane, DC Schroeder, MCJ Cheeran… - elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Although vaccination is broadly used in North American swine breeding herds, managing
swine influenza is challenging primarily due to the continuous evolution of influenza A virus …

Naturally occurring influenza reassortment in pigs facilitates the emergence of intrahost virus subpopulations with distinct genotypes and replicative fitness

C Li, V Meliopoulos, A Rendahl, S Schultz-Cherry… - mBio, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Pigs are recognized as amplifying hosts for influenza A virus (IAV) reassortant viruses.
Understanding the extent of IAV reassortment occurring at the individual pig level in …

Quo vadis? Central Rules of Pathogen and Disease Tropism

LI McCall - Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Understanding why certain people get sick and die while others recover or never become ill
is a fundamental question in biomedical research. A key determinant of this process is …

Improving risk assessment of the emergence of novel influenza A viruses by incorporating environmental surveillance

KM Pepin, MW Hopken, SA Shriner… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Reassortment is an evolutionary mechanism by which influenza A viruses (IAV) generate
genetic novelty. Reassortment is an important driver of host jumps and is widespread …

Animal models for the risk assessment of viral pandemic potential

MS Park, JI Kim, JY Bae, MS Park - Laboratory Animal Research, 2020 - Springer
Pandemics affect human lives severely and globally. Experience predicts that there will be a
pandemic for sure although the time is unknown. When a viral epidemic breaks out …

Limited onward transmission potential of reassortment genotypes from chickens co-infected with H9N2 and H7N9 avian influenza viruses

W Su, SF Sia, KT Choy, Y Ji, D Chen… - Emerging microbes & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The segmented genome of influenza A virus has conferred significant evolutionary
advantages to this virus through genetic reassortment, a mechanism that facilitates the rapid …

Tissue tropisms of avian influenza A viruses affect their spillovers from wild birds to pigs

X Zhang, FL Cunningham, L Li, K Hanson-Dorr… - Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Wild aquatic birds maintain a large, genetically diverse pool of influenza A viruses (IAVs),
which can be transmitted to lower mammals and, ultimately, humans. Through phenotypic …