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Immune responses and virus shedding in pigs following different A(H1N1)09 infection routes

The differences in shedding pattern and cytokine and immune responses are important for studies of disease pathogenesis and assessment of vaccine protective efficacy.

7 December 2016
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Experimentally, influenza virus is delivered to pigs intra-nasally, by intra-tracheal instillation or by aerosol, but there is little data comparing the outcome of different methods. We evaluated the shedding pattern, cytokine responses in nasal swabs and immune responses following delivery of low or high dose swine influenza pdmH1N1 virus to the respiratory tract of pigs intra-nasally or by aerosol and compared them to those induced in naturally infected contact pigs.

Our data shows that natural infection by contact induces remarkably high innate and adaptive immune response, although the animals were exposed to a very low virus dose. In contacts, the kinetics of virus shedding were slow and prolonged and more similar to the low dose directly infected animals. In contrast the cytokine profile in nasal swabs, antibody and cellular immune responses of contacts more closely resemble immune responses in high dose directly inoculated animals.

Consideration of these differences is important for studies of disease pathogenesis and assessment of vaccine protective efficacy.

Hemmink JD, Morgan SB, Aramouni M, Everett H, Salguero Canini L, Porter E, Chase-Topping M, Beck K, Loughlin RM, Carr BV, Brown IH, Bailey M, Woolhouse M, Brookes SM, Charleston B, Tchilian E; Distinct Immune Responses and Virus Shedding in Pigs following Aerosol, Intra-Nasal and Contact Infection with Pandemic Swine Influenza A Virus, A(H1N1)09; Vet Res. 2016 Oct 20;47(1):103. PMID: 27765064 DOI: 10.1186/s13567-016-0390-5

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