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Reassortment and interspecies transmission of North American H6N2 influenza viruses.
Virology - 30 Mar 2002
Webby Richard J, Woolcock Peter R, Krauss Scott L, Webster Robert G
Abstract excerpt
H6N2 influenza viruses were isolated from California chickens in 2000 and 2001. Here we report the characterization of these H6N2 viruses, one of the few descriptions of non-H5, non-H7 subtype influenza viruses in this host. The H6N2 viruses were nonpathogenic in experimentally infected chickens and could be divided into three genotypes. All three genotypes of virus had similar surface glycoproteins and all...
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