Recombination as a mechanism in the evolution of influenza viruses: a two-year study of ducks in Hong Kong.

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An analysis was made of 149 influenza A viruses isolated from ducks in Hong Kong during the period of November 1975 through October 1977. The viruses were isolated five times more frequently from ducks raised in the People's Republic of China than from those raised in Hong Kong. The isolation rate fo viruses was higher from the cloaca than it was from the trachea, but this pattern varied over the two years of...

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