date:Oct 18, 2013
ely due to the limited current surveillance effort in combination with routine use of diagnostic approaches which are not able to specifically identify this new strain.
Currently applied real time RT-PCRs based on the matrix (M) or the nucleoprotein (NP) gene are capable of detecting all of the influenza A viruses known to be endemic in European pigs plus emergent strains such as rH3N2p from North America. However, neither these tests nor real time RTPCRs based on H3 or N2 genes are able to spe