- 著者
- Akihiro SHIBATA Rieko HARADA Masatoshi OKAMATSU Keita MATSUNO Tomoko ARITA Yasushi SUZUKI Masayuki SHIRAKURA Takato ODAGIRI Nobuhiro TAKEMAE Yuko UCHIDA Takehiko SAITO Yoshihiro SAKODA Hiroyuki OSAKA
- 出版者
- JAPANESE SOCIETY OF VETERINARY SCIENCE
- 雑誌
- Journal of Veterinary Medical Science (ISSN:09167250)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.81, no.3, pp.444-448, 2019 (Released:2019-03-20)
- 参考文献数
- 16
- 被引用文献数
- 8
A new reassortant H7N3 avian influenza virus (AIV) was isolated from a duck meat product that was illegally taken on board a passenger flight from China to Japan in March 2018. Sequencing analysis revealed that the H7N3 isolate, A/duck/Japan/AQ-HE30-1/2018 (Dk/HE30-1) (H7N3), was a reassortant highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) that contained the haemagglutinin (HA) gene of Chinese H7N9 HPAIV. Dk/HE30-1 (H7N3) possessed a novel polybasic sequence motif PEVPKRRRTAR/GLF at the HA cleavage site that has never previously been reported in H7 HPAIVs. The HA antigenicity of Dk/HE30-1 (H7N3) slightly differed from that of H7N9 HPAIVs previously reported. These findings will help further our knowledge of the circulation and genetic evolution of emerging AIVs in endemic areas.