date:Oct 18, 2013
cifically identify the H3N2pM as being different from European strains. The panel of serological reagents for conventional typing will reliably type all H3N2 strains and the H3N2pM will raise a different reactivity profile in such assays, due to its antigenic differences when compared to European H3N2 SIVs.
Only by combining currently applied diagnostic approaches with gene sequencing will it be possible to identify H3N2pM should it occur in Europe either in pigs or in humans. All of these diag