Article
Infection of children with avian-human reassortant influenza virus from pigs in Europe.
Virology - 1 Oct 1994
Claas E C, Kawaoka Y, de Jong J C, Masurel N, Webster R G
Abstract excerpt
Pigs have been proposed to act as the intermediate hosts in the generation of pandemic human influenza strains by reassortment of genes from avian and human influenza virus strains. The circulation of avian-like H1N1 influenza viruses in European pigs since 1979 and the detection of human-avian r...
Topics
- Animals
- Child, Preschool
- Europe
- Female
- Genes, Viral
- Genetic Variation
- Hemagglutinins, Viral
- Humans
- Infant
- Influenza A virus
- Influenza, Human
- Male
- Netherlands
- Nucleocapsid Proteins
- Nucleoproteins
- Phylogeny
- RNA-Binding Proteins
- Reassortant Viruses