Background and aim: The influenza viruses pose a threat of emergence of a global pandemic influenza through point mutation or reassortment, leading to a strain that can effectively transmit among humans. In this study, the authors present phylogenetic and genetic evidences for the interlineage reassortment among avian influenza viruses isolated in Kazakhstan in 2006 from a mute swan.
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