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Generation and characterization of interferon-lambda 1-resistant H1N1 influenza A viruses.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Ilyushina Natalia A, Lugovtsev Vladimir Y, Samsonova Anastasia P, Sheikh Faruk G, Bovin Nicolai V, Donnelly Raymond P
Abstract excerpt
Influenza A viruses pose a constant potential threat to human health. In view of the innate antiviral activity of interferons (IFNs) and their potential use as anti-influenza agents, it is important to know whether viral resistance to these antiviral proteins can arise. To examine the likelihood of emergence of IFN-λ1-resistant H1N1 variants, we serially passaged the A/California/04/09 (H1N1) strain in a human...
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