Article
Mutations to PB2 and NP proteins of an avian influenza virus combine to confer efficient growth in primary human respiratory cells.
Journal of virology - 1 Nov 2014
Danzy Shamika, Studdard Lydia R, Manicassamy Balaji, Solorzano Alicia, Marshall Nicolle, García-Sastre Adolfo, Steel John, Lowen Anice C
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Influenza pandemics occur when influenza A viruses (IAV) adapted to other host species enter humans and spread through the population. Pandemics are relatively rare due to host restriction of IAV: strains adapted to nonhuman species do not readily infect, replicate in, or transmit among humans. IAV can overcome host restriction through reassortment or adaptive evolution, and these are mechanisms by...
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