Jian-Feng Xie, Yan-Hua Zhang, Lin Zhao, Wen-Qiong Xiu, Hong-Bin Chen, Qi Lin, Yu-Wei Weng and Kui-Cheng Zheng. Emergence of Eurasian Avian-Like Swine Influenza A (H1N1) Virus from an Adult Case in Fujian Province, China[J]. Virologica Sinica, 2018, 33(3): 282-286. doi: 10.1007/s12250-018-0034-1
Citation: Jian-Feng Xie, Yan-Hua Zhang, Lin Zhao, Wen-Qiong Xiu, Hong-Bin Chen, Qi Lin, Yu-Wei Weng, Kui-Cheng Zheng. Emergence of Eurasian Avian-Like Swine Influenza A (H1N1) Virus from an Adult Case in Fujian Province, China .VIROLOGICA SINICA, 2018, 33(3) : 282-286.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12250-018-0034-1

中国福建省成人病例中发现欧亚禽源H1N1猪流感病毒

  • 通讯作者: 郑奎城, kingdadi9909@126.com
  • Jian-Feng Xie, ORCID: 0000-0003-1506-988X
  • 出版日期: 2018-05-24
  • 自1979年以来,欧亚禽源H1N1猪流感病毒(EAS-H1N1)已在猪中传播,并且在一些国家报道了人感染EAS-H1N1病毒的散发病例。 2016年10月,中国福建省在住院的成人重症肺炎患者中发现了欧亚禽源H1N1猪流感病毒。采用鸡胚分离病毒并提取病毒RNA,通过RT-PCR和测序获得了病毒全基因组序列。系统进化分析显示,该病毒是一种新型三源重组H1N1病毒,其中含有来自欧亚禽源猪流感的HA和NA节段,甲型H1N1流感的PB2、PB1、PA、NP和M节段,以及经典猪流感的NS节段,被称为A/Fujian-cangshan/SWL624/2016(FJ / 624/16)流感病毒。FJ / 624/16病毒全基因序列与A / Hunan / 42443/2015和A/swine/Guangdong/1/2010病毒全基因序列的相似性分别为94.3%-98.2%和91.2%-95.4%。在这项研究中,分离株在HA蛋白中含有E190D和D225E氨基酸位点变异,表明病毒优先选择α-2,6-连接的唾液酸而增加在人类上呼吸道中的结合能力。该病毒对神经氨酸酶抑制剂敏感,对金刚烷胺类药物耐药。FJ/624/16病毒的一些氨基酸残基可能增加病毒的毒力或对哺乳动物的适应性。为了及时发现病毒的毒力和人传人能力,作为整个流感大流行防备计划的一部分,应进一步加强对猪和人的流行病学和病原学监测。

Emergence of Eurasian Avian-Like Swine Influenza A (H1N1) Virus from an Adult Case in Fujian Province, China

  • Corresponding author: Kui-Cheng Zheng, kingdadi9909@126.com
  • ORCID: 0000-0003-1506-988X; 
  • Published Date: 24 May 2018
  • The Eurasian avian-like swine influenza A (H1N1) viruses (EAS-H1N1) have circulated in pigs since 1979, and human sporadically infected with EAS-H1N1 have been reported in several countries. In October 2016, the EAS-H1N1 infection in an adult hospitalized patient with severe pneumonia was identified in Fujian Province in China. The viral RNA was extracted form chicken embryo culture inoculated with throat swab, and complete genome sequences were obtained by RT-PCR and sequencing. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the virus was a novel triple-reassortant H1N1 virus containing genes from the Eurasian avian-like swine (HA, NA), A (H1N1) pdm09 (PB2, PB1, PA, NP, M) and classical swine (NS) lineages, termed influenza A/Fujian-cangshan/SWL624/2016 (FJ/624/16) virus. Complete sequences of FJ/624/16 virus were 94.3%-98.2% and 91.2%-95.4% identical in all 8 gene segments with A/Hunan/42443/2015 virus and A/swine/Guangdong/1/2010 virus respectively. In this study, the isolate contained E190D and D225E substitution within HA, suggesting the preference to α-2,6-linked sialosides and increase in the binding force of H1N1 virus in human upper respiratory tract. The virus was sensitive to neuramidinase inhibitors, but resistant to adamantanes. Several amino acid residues of FJ/624/16 virus might increase viral virulence or adaptation in mammals. In order to find the virulence and human-to-human transmission ability of viruses timely, further epidemiological and virological surveillance in swine and human ought to be enhanced as a part of an overall pandemic preparedness plan.

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    Emergence of Eurasian Avian-Like Swine Influenza A (H1N1) Virus from an Adult Case in Fujian Province, China

      Corresponding author: Kui-Cheng Zheng, kingdadi9909@126.com
    • Jian-Feng Xie, ORCID: 0000-0003-1506-988X
    • 1. Fujian Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Zoonoses Research, Fuzhou 350001, China
    • 2. School of Public Health, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350001, China

    Abstract: The Eurasian avian-like swine influenza A (H1N1) viruses (EAS-H1N1) have circulated in pigs since 1979, and human sporadically infected with EAS-H1N1 have been reported in several countries. In October 2016, the EAS-H1N1 infection in an adult hospitalized patient with severe pneumonia was identified in Fujian Province in China. The viral RNA was extracted form chicken embryo culture inoculated with throat swab, and complete genome sequences were obtained by RT-PCR and sequencing. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the virus was a novel triple-reassortant H1N1 virus containing genes from the Eurasian avian-like swine (HA, NA), A (H1N1) pdm09 (PB2, PB1, PA, NP, M) and classical swine (NS) lineages, termed influenza A/Fujian-cangshan/SWL624/2016 (FJ/624/16) virus. Complete sequences of FJ/624/16 virus were 94.3%-98.2% and 91.2%-95.4% identical in all 8 gene segments with A/Hunan/42443/2015 virus and A/swine/Guangdong/1/2010 virus respectively. In this study, the isolate contained E190D and D225E substitution within HA, suggesting the preference to α-2,6-linked sialosides and increase in the binding force of H1N1 virus in human upper respiratory tract. The virus was sensitive to neuramidinase inhibitors, but resistant to adamantanes. Several amino acid residues of FJ/624/16 virus might increase viral virulence or adaptation in mammals. In order to find the virulence and human-to-human transmission ability of viruses timely, further epidemiological and virological surveillance in swine and human ought to be enhanced as a part of an overall pandemic preparedness plan.

    • Dear Editor,

      As we known, pigs play a vital role as genetic mixing vessels for human and avian influenza viruses as their tracheal epitheliums possess both sialic acid α-2, 6-Gal and α-2, 3-Gal receptors (Ma et al. 2008), and swine influenza viruses occasionally infect humans (Shinde et al. 2009). The Eurasian avian-like swine influenza A (H1N1) virus (EAS-H1N1) spread into China around 2007, when the first isolate (A/swine/Fujian/204/2007) from pigs in Fujian was reported via swine influenza surveillance program (Liu et al. 2009). Much later, three cases of EAS-H1N1 infection in human were reported in China and they were all children under the age of three (Yang et al. 2012; Wang et al. 2013; Zhu et al. 2016), whereas the forth case was an adult, who was confirmed in October, 2016, in Fujian province.

      The patient was a 46-year-old man with fever of 39 ℃ and started coughing on October 19, 2016. In the day after onset, he was treated in a prefectural hospital on account of hemoptysis and dyspnea, and then he was transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) of Fuzhou Pulmonary Hospital because of severe pneumonia on October 21. A throat-swab specimen of patient was collected and transferred to Fujian CDC rapidly with cryogenic storage container for confirming influenza virus. Clinical examination revealed white blood cell (WBC) count of 5.4×109/L, blood platelet count of 27×109/L, and creatinine 300 lmol/L. At last, the patient died on October 28 due to multi-organ failure.

      A retrospective investigation was conducted to identify the potential infection source and any other possible cases. The patient lived with his wife, son, brother and sister in an argillous house, with pigs, chickens, and ducks being bred around it. The patient had not the history of feeding poultry or swine and visiting live poultry market before he got sick. A total of 9 close contacts (6 family members and 3 healthcare workers) of the patient did not develop any influenza-like symptoms during the longest incubation period. On October 23, we collected 12 specimens (including 3 poultry drinking water samples, 3 poultry cage surface wipes, 1 chicken feces sample, 3 duck feces samples and 2 pig feces samples) from the surrounding environment where the patient lived, but no influenza viruses were identified at that time.

      A throat-swab specimen of the patient was collected and the virus was isolated using 9-to-10-days-old specific pathogen-free (SPF) embryonated chicken eggs in the Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory, terming influenza A/Fujiancangshan/SWL624/2016 (FJ/624/16) virus. To study the genomic characterization of FJ/624/16 virus, we sequenced the complete genomes of the viral isolate in November, 2016. Sequences were assembled using the SeqMan of the Lasergene Package (DNAStar Corporation, USA). Nucleotide alignments and phylogenetic tree were constructed using the MEGA version 6.0 software (the Biodesign Institute, USA) by the Neighbor-Joining method with 1000 bootstrap replicates as implemented. Phylogenetic analysis of genome showed that the isolate was a novel triple-reassortant H1N1 virus with genes containing from Eurasian avian-like swine (HA, NA), A (H1N1) pdm09 (PB2, PB1, PA, NP, M) and classical swine (NS) lineages (Tables 1, 2 and Fig. 1). Complete sequences of FJ/624/16 virus were 94.3%–98.2% and 91.2%–95.4% identical in all 8 gene segments with A/Hunan/42443/2015 virus and A/swine/Guangdong/1/2010 virus respectively. Nevertheless, the M gene segment of FJ/624/16 virus showed the highest homology (98.4%) with A/California/ 07/2009 virus than other viruses and shared the closely related with A (H1N1) pdm09 viruses via blast (the sequences of viruses from the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data, GISAID; Accession No. EPI_ISL_239998, EPI_ISL_206573, EPI_ISL_75321, EPI_ISL_227813, EPI_ISL_85649, EPI_ISL_138290 and EPI_ISL_33887).

      Table 1.  Homology analysis of sequences of all genes identified in the A/Fujian-cangshan/ SWL624/2016 virus

      Table 2.  Genetic origin of A/Fujian-cangshan/SWL624/ 2016 virus isolated from human in Fujian, China

      Figure 1.  Phylogenetic analysis of all eight genes on A/Fujian-cangshan/SWL624/2016 virus. Red, light blue, green, and blue are marked at the A/Fujian-cangshan/SWL624/2016, A /Hunan/42443/2015, A /Heibei-Yuhua/SWL1250/2012 and A/Jiangsu/1/2011, respectively. The reliability of the trees was assessed via bootstrap analysis with 1000 replications. The horizontal distances are proportional to the genetic distance. Scale bars indicate nucleotide substitutions per site

      We compared the newly sequenced genomes with 3 available genomes of human influenza virus strains in public databases to determine if they had attained key molecular features associated with increased virulence in mammals, mammalian transmissibility, and antiviral resistance (Table 3). In this study, FJ/624/16 possessed E190D and D225E (H3 numbering) in HA protein, suggesting the preference to α-2, 6-linked sialosides and increase in the binding force of H1N1 virus in human upper respiratory tract (Matrosovich et al. 2000; Zhu et al. 2016). FJ/624/16 was found to contain an amino acid motif PSIQSR * GL at its HA cleavage sites, a characteristic of low pathogenic influenza virus (Korteweg and Gu 2008). The amino acid substitutions (H274Y, N294S, et al.) associated with neuraminindase inhibitory drugs were not observed in the NA protein of FJ/624/16, indicating sensitivity to neuramidinase inhibitors, but an S31N substitution in M2 protein suggested resistant to adamantanes. In addition, our data showed that several amino acid residues of FJ/624/16 might increase viral virulence or adaptation in mammals, such as 89V and 591R in the PB2, 336M, 356R and 409N in the PA, 215A in the M1, and 42S in the NS1 (Nguyen et al. 2012; Gao et al. 2013; Yamada et al. 2010; Wang et al. 2016; Fan et al. 2009; Jiao et al. 2008).

      Table 3.  Molecular analysis of A/Fujian-cangshan/SWL624/2016 virus

      So far, a total of 4 human cases of Eurasian avian-like swine influenza A (H1N1) virus infection had been reported in China. All three cases reported previously were children under 3 years old, but the first adult case-patient was confirmed in China in this study, signifying the EASH1N1 virus infection was not confined to children. The 8 gene segments of human infection with EAS-H1N1 virus reported in China during 2011–2012 originated from Eurasian avian influenza virus, however, the two EAS-H1N1 viruses reported in China lately differed from those: HA and NA gene clustered with Eurasian avian influenza virus, and other 6 genes shared the closely related with A (H1N1) pdm09 virus or classical swine influenza virus by phylogenetic analysis, implying that the genes of A (H1N1) pdm09 virus might have been recombined in swine since 2009. According to previous reports and this study, human infections with EAS-H1N1 virus might have been underestimated in China.

      To analyze the virulence, transmissibility and drugresistance of the EAS-H1N1 virus from the adult patient, we performed an in-depth analysis of genetic characteristics of the FJ/624/16 virus. The virus might preferentially bind to influenza virus-binding receptor of human upper respiratory tract due to the amino acid mutations E190D and D225E within HA protein, hinting the potential risk of human-to-human transmission. In addition, several amino acid residues of FJ/624/16 virus might increase viral virulence or adaptation in mammals, so the severity of disease caused by EAS-H1N1 should be valued in future studies. In our study, we found that the virus was resistant to adamantanes and sensitive to neuramidinase inhibitors, suggesting that early administration of oseltamivir or peramivir may help to reduce the severity of the disease.

      In summary, human infection with the EAS-H1N1 virus could lead to severe clinical syndrome, even death. However, increasing evidences show that the EAS-H1N1 virus becomes more adaptative to mammal infection, and was equipped with viral molecular basis of cross-species transmission (Yang et al. 2012; Wang et al. 2013; Zhu et al. 2016; Qi et al. 2012). Thus, it is a great significance to strengthen the surveillance for EAS-H1N1 virus among swine and humans, and virologic analyses to assess genetic changes of EAS-H1N1 virus also highlighted the great value to determine the viral transmissibility among humans and pandemic potential.

    • We thank Fuzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Fuzhou Pulmonary Hospital for providing the sample. We acknowledge the contributions of authors and laboratories for sharing the influenza virus sequences in GISAID's EpiFlu Database. This study was supported by the fund of Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (2015J01294), the Youth Backbone Talents Cultivation Program of Health System in Fujian Province (2015-ZQNZD-10) and the National Science and Technology Major Project (2017ZX10103008).

    • The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

    • The study was approved by the ethics committees of Fujian Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention. All participants provided written informed consent. Written consents were obtained from all participants involved in the study.

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