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Influenza virus carrying an R292K mutation in the neuraminidase gene is not transmitted in ferrets.
Antiviral research - 1 May 2002
Herlocher M L, Carr J, Ives J, Elias S, Truscon R, Roberts N, Monto A S
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A model of influenza transmission has been established in ferrets in which wild-type influenza infection in a donor ferret can be transmitted sequentially to other ferrets. We have studied the transmission in ferrets of a clinical isolate of A/Sydney/5/97 (H3N2) carrying the neuraminidase 292K mutation compared with the corresponding wild-type virus from the same subject. Donor ferrets (n=four per group) were...
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