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Biological heterogeneity, including systemic replication in mice, of H5N1 influenza A virus isolates from humans in Hong Kong.
Journal of virology - 1 Apr 1999
Gao P, Watanabe S, Ito T, Goto H, Wells K, McGregor M, Cooley A J, Kawaoka Y
Abstract excerpt
An H5N1 avian influenza A virus was transmitted to humans in Hong Kong in 1997. Although the virus causes systemic infection and is highly lethal in chickens because of the susceptibility of the hemagglutinin to furin and PC6 proteases, it is not known whether it also causes systemic infection in...
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