These authors contributed equally in this study as first authors.
Gansu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Lanzhou China.
Euro Surveill. 2019 May;24(21). doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.21.1900273.
After no reported human cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H7N9 for over a year, a case with severe disease occurred in late March 2019. Among HPAI H7N9 viral sequences, those recovered from the case and from environmental samples of a poultry slaughtering stall near their home formed a distinct clade from 2017 viral sequences. Several mutations possibly associated to antigenic drift occurred in the haemagglutinin gene, potentially warranting update of H7N9 vaccine strains.
在超过一年没有报告人感染高致病性禽流感(HPAI)H7N9 病例后,2019 年 3 月下旬出现了一例重症病例。在 HPAI H7N9 病毒序列中,从该病例和其家附近家禽屠宰摊环境样本中恢复的病毒序列与 2017 年的病毒序列形成了一个明显的分支。在血凝素基因中发生了几个可能与抗原漂移相关的突变,这可能需要更新 H7N9 疫苗株。