Canine Flu Virus Strains Unlikely Intermingled

Canine influenza virus update verbatim from  animal health diagnosis Center at College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University.

The genome sequence of an influenza virus cultured from a canine nasal swab sample from a dog with respiratory disease in the Chicago area confirms that an Asian H3N2 virus is circulating. Scientists at the National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) in Ames, Iowa completed the sequence analysis on April 15 for a virus isolated at Cornell on April 9. All eight genome segments of the virus match closely (99% identity) with viruses isolated from dogs and cats from South Korea. This suggests that the virus likely came from this geographic region.

The virus sequenced shows no evidence of recombination with Canine H3N8 or any North American H3N2. The figure below identified the closest match for each of the gene segments amplified and was provided by NVSL. Sequences will be accessioned in GeneBank as soon as possible and made available to the general community.