Article
The surface glycoproteins of H5 influenza viruses isolated from humans, chickens, and wild aquatic birds have distinguishable properties.
Journal of virology - 1 Feb 1999
Matrosovich M, Zhou N, Kawaoka Y, Webster R
Abstract excerpt
In 1997, 18 confirmed cases of human influenza arising from multiple independent transmissions of H5N1 viruses from infected chickens were reported from Hong Kong. To identify possible phenotypic changes in the hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) of the H5 viruses during interspecies transf...
Topics
- Alpha-Globulins
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Carbohydrate Metabolism
- Chickens
- Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus
- Hong Kong
- Horseradish Peroxidase
- Humans
- Influenza A virus
- Influenza in Birds
- Influenza, Human
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Neuraminidase
- Ovomucin
- Phenotype
- Receptors, Virus
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid