Nico Joel Halwe, Lea Hamberger, Julia Sehl-Ewert, Christin Mache, Jacob Schön, Lorenz Ulrich, Sten Calvelage, Mario Tönnies, Jonas Fuchs, Pooja Bandawane, Madhumathi Loganathan, Anass Abbad, Juan Manuel Carreño, Maria C Bermúdez-González, Viviana Simon, Ahmed Kandeil, Rabeh El-Shesheny, Mohamed A Ali, Ghazi Kayali, Matthias Budt, Stefan Hippenstiel, Andreas C Hocke, Florian Krammer, Thorsten Wolff, Martin Schwemmle, Kevin Ciminski, Donata Hoffmann, Martin Beer
Influenza A viruses (IAVs) of subtype H9N2 have reached an endemic stage in poultry farms in the Middle East and Asia. As a result, human infections with avian H9N2 viruses have been increasingly reported. In 2017, an H9N2 virus was isolated for the first time from Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus). Phylogenetic analyses revealed that bat H9N2 is descended from a common ancestor dating back centuries ago. However, the H9 and N2 sequences appear to be genetically similar to current avian IAVs, suggesting recent reassortment events...
April 25, 2024: Nature Communications