Article
Pathogenicity of influenza A/Seal/Mass/1/80 virus mutants for mammalian species.
Archives of virology - 1 Jan 1995
Scheiblauer H, Kendal A P, Rott R
Abstract excerpt
Increases in infectiousness, neurotropism and virulence were found in a laboratory variant of influenza A/Seal/Massachussets/1/80 (H7N7) virus having a highly cleavable hemagglutinin. Sequential passage from host to host further increased pathogenicity of the H7N7 virus in mice, ferrets and rats.
Topics
- Animals
- Brain
- Female
- Ferrets
- Hemagglutinins, Viral
- Influenza A virus
- Lung
- Mice
- Mutation
- Orthomyxoviridae Infections
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred Lew
- Seals, Earless
