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Temporally structured metapopulation dynamics and persistence of influenza A H3N2 virus in humans.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 29 Nov 2011
Bahl Justin, Nelson Martha I, Chan Kwok H, Chen Rubing, Vijaykrishna Dhanasekaran, Halpin Rebecca A, Stockwell Timothy B, Lin Xudong, Wentworth David E, Ghedin Elodie, Guan Yi, Peiris J S Malik, Riley Steven, Rambaut Andrew, Holmes Edward C, Smith Gavin J D
Abstract excerpt
Populations of seasonal influenza virus experience strong annual bottlenecks that pose a considerable extinction risk. It has been suggested that an influenza source population located in tropical Southeast or East Asia seeds annual temperate epidemics. Here we investigate the seasonal dynamics and migration patterns of influenza A H3N2 virus by analysis of virus samples obtained from 2003 to 2006 from Australia,...
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