Mutations acquired during cell culture isolation may affect antigenic characterisation of influenza A(H3N2) clade 3C.2a viruses

Author:

Skowronski Danuta M12,Sabaiduc Suzana1,Chambers Catharine1,Eshaghi Alireza3,Gubbay Jonathan B34,Krajden Mel12,Drews Steven J56,Martineau Christine7,De Serres Gaston789,Dickinson James A10,Winter Anne-Luise3,Bastien Nathalie11,Li Yan1112

Affiliation:

1. British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, Canada

2. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

3. Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Canada

4. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

5. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

6. Alberta Provincial Laboratory, Edmonton, Canada

7. Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec (National Institute of Health of Quebec), Quebec, Canada

8. Laval University, Quebec, Canada

9. Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec (University Hospital Centre of Quebec), Quebec, Canada

10. University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

11. National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

12. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Abstract

As elsewhere, few (< 15%) sentinel influenza A(H3N2) clade 3C.2a viruses that dominated in Canada during the 2014/15 season could be antigenically characterised by haemagglutination inhibition (HI) assay. Clade 3C.2a viruses that could be HI-characterised had acquired genetic mutations during in vitro cell culture isolation that modified the potential glycosylation motif found in original patient specimens and the consensus sequence of circulating viruses at amino acid positions 158–160 of the haemagglutinin protein. Caution is warranted in extrapolating antigenic relatedness based on limited HI findings for clade 3C.2a viruses that continue to circulate globally.

Publisher

European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

Subject

Virology,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Epidemiology

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