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Characteristics of influenza virus genome mutations.
The Kobe journal of medical sciences - 16 Jan 2012
Tanaka Motoko, Tsumura Kyoko, Ito Hiroshi, Ito Toshihiro, Ono Etsuro, Makino Akiko, Kawaoka Yoshihiro, Shinya Kyoko
Abstract excerpt
Although the viral factors of host adaptation from domestic poultry to humans have been studied several times since the first cases of direct transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses from domestic poultry to humans were confirmed in 1997, the host-specific adaptation mechanisms from waterfowl to domestic poultry remain unknown. To study the mechanisms involved, a waterfowl-derived virus was...
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