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The Effects of Genetic Variation on H7N9 Avian Influenza Virus Pathogenicity.
Viruses - 28 Oct 2020
Huang Szu-Wei, Wang Sheng-Fan
Abstract excerpt
Since the H7N9 avian influenza virus emerged in China in 2013, there have been five seasonal waves which have shown human infections and caused high fatality rates in infected patients. A multibasic amino acid insertion seen in the HA of current H7N9 viruses occurred through natural evolution and reassortment, and created a high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) virus from the low pathogenicity avian influenza...
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