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ArticleFrontiers in public health2025

Genetic characterization of the respiratory tract viruses in Jilin, Northeast China, 2023.

Zhixia Song, Yuanyuan Huang, Yue Gu, Lihe Che, Kaiyu Zhang, Quan Liu, Qingtian Guan, Liyan Sui

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Zhixia SongState Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases and Center of Infectious Diseases and Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Organ Regeneration and Transplantation of the Ministry of Education, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Yuanyuan HuangDepartment of Paediatrics, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Yue GuDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Lihe CheState Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases and Center of Infectious Diseases and Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Organ Regeneration and Transplantation of the Ministry of Education, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Kaiyu ZhangState Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases and Center of Infectious Diseases and Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Organ Regeneration and Transplantation of the Ministry of Education, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Quan LiuState Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases and Center of Infectious Diseases and Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Organ Regeneration and Transplantation of the Ministry of Education, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Qingtian GuanBioinformatics Laboratory, Infectious Diseases and Pathogen Biology Center, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Liyan SuiState Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases and Center of Infectious Diseases and Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Organ Regeneration and Transplantation of the Ministry of Education, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.

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Objective: Respiratory viral infections impose a significant global health burden, necessitating continuous regional surveillance to understand pathogen circulation. This study aimed to characterize the spectrum of respiratory pathogens and identify potential causative agents in Jilin Province, northeast China, during 2023. Methods: Using metagenomic next-generation sequencing, we analyzed 250 respiratory samples and 195 blood samples, sequencing of all samples yielded 399,256 viral reads. Bioinformatic and phylogenetic analyses were conducted to identify and characterize the detected viruses. Results: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (lineage BA.2), human respiratory syncytial virus B (lineage GB5.0.5a), and influenza B virus (lineage V1A.3a.2) were identified as common respiratory pathogens across both pediatric and adult populations. Influenza A virus (lineage 3C.2a1b.2a.2a.3a.1), rhinovirus (subtype C), human respiratory syncytial virus A (lineage GA2.3.5), human respiratory syncytial virus B (lineage GB5.0.5a), and human metapneumovirus (lineage A2c) were detected in pediatric or adult respiratory samples. Human Pegivirus (genotype 3) was detected exclusively in adult blood samples. Strikingly, a novel picobirnavirus was identified in adult sputum samples, sequence and structural analyses consistently indicate that this picobirnavirus is closely related to human-associated strains, exhibiting ≥70% amino acid identity and an RdRP structure nearly identical to that of picobirnaviruses previously identified in human upper respiratory swabs from Cambodia. This finding was validated by nested RT-PCR, representing the first documented detection of picobirnavirus in respiratory specimens from China. As most identified strains were first reported in northeast China, we also conducted comprehensive phylogenetic analyses of representative viruses, revealing high sequence similarity with epidemic strains from other regions of China. Conclusion: These findings delineate the respiratory viruses of northeast China, providing data for region-specific surveillance to mitigate future public health risks.

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Respiratory Tract InfectionsVirus DiseasesAdultChildChild, PreschoolChinaFemaleHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansMaleMetagenomicsPhylogenySARS-CoV-2human pegivirusmetagenomic sequencingnovel picobirnavirusphylogenetic analysesrespiratory viruses

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