
H3N2 subtype influenza A viruses have been identified in humans worldwide, raising concerns about their pandemic potential and prompting the development of candidate vaccines to protect humans against this subtype of influenza A virus. The aim of this study was to establish a system for rescuing of a cold-adapted high-yielding H3N2 subtype human influenza virus by reverse genetics.In order to generate better and safer vaccine candidate viruses, a cold-adapted high yielding reassortant H3N2 influenza A virus was genetically constructed by reverse genetics and was designated as rgAA-H3N2. The rgAA-H3N2 virus contained HA and NA genes from an epidemic strain A/Wisconsin/67/2005 (H3N2) in a background of internal genes derived from the master donor viruses (MDV), cold-adapted (ca), temperature sensitive (ts), live attenuated influenza virus strain A/Ann Arbor/6/60 (MDV-A).In this presentation, the virus HA titer of rgAA-H3N2 in the allantoic fluid from infected embryonated eggs was as high as 1:1024. A fluorescent focus assay (FFU) was performed 24-36 hours post-infection using a specific antibody and bright staining was used for determining the virus titer. The allantoic fluid containing the recovered influenza virus was analyzed in a hemagglutination inhibition (HI) test and the specific inhibition was found.The results mentioned above demonstrated that cold-adapted, attenuated reassortant H3N2 subtype influenza A virus was successfully generated, which laid a good foundation for the further related research.
Mice, Inbred BALB C, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Influenza A Virus, H3N2 Subtype, Neuraminidase, Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus, Vaccines, Attenuated, Mice, Viral Proteins, Dogs, Influenza Vaccines, COS Cells, Chlorocebus aethiops, Animals, Reassortant Viruses, Plasmids
Mice, Inbred BALB C, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Influenza A Virus, H3N2 Subtype, Neuraminidase, Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus, Vaccines, Attenuated, Mice, Viral Proteins, Dogs, Influenza Vaccines, COS Cells, Chlorocebus aethiops, Animals, Reassortant Viruses, Plasmids
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