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Avian influenza virus h3 hemagglutinin may enable high fitness of novel human virus reassortants.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Kreibich Anne, Stech Olga, Hundt Jana, Ziller Mario, Mettenleiter Thomas C, Stech Juergen
Abstract excerpt
Reassortment of influenza A virus genes enables antigenic shift resulting in the emergence of pandemic viruses with novel hemagglutinins (HA) acquired from avian strains. Here, we investigated whether historic and contemporary avian strains with different replication capacity in human cells can d...
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