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[Mutations in Hemagglutinin and Polymerase Alter the Virulence of Pandemic A(H1N1) Influenza Virus].
Molekuliarnaia biologiia - 1 Jan 2000
Gambaryan A S, Lomakina N F, Boravleva E Y, Mochalova L V, Sadykova G K, Prilipov A G, Matrosovich T Y, Matrosovich M N
Abstract excerpt
To study the pathogenicity factors of the pandemic A(H1N1) influenza virus, a number of mutant variants of the A/Hamburg/5/2009 (H1N1)pdm09 strain were obtained through passage in chicken embryos, mouse lungs, and MDCK cell culture. After 17 lung-to-lung passages of the A/Hamburg/5/2009 in mice, the minimum lethal dose of the derived variant decreased by five orders of magnitude compared to that of the parental...
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