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Influenza viruses: breaking all the rules.
mBio - 16 Jul 2013
Taubenberger Jeffery K, Morens David M
Abstract excerpt
Influenza A viruses (IAV) are significant pathogens able to repeatedly switch hosts to infect multiple avian and mammalian species, including humans. The unpredictability of IAV evolution and interspecies movement creates continual public health challenges, such as the emergence of the 2009 pandemic H1N1 virus from swine, as well as pandemic threats from the ongoing H5N1 and the recent H7N9 epizootics. In the...
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