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Insertion of Basic Amino Acids in the Hemagglutinin Cleavage Site of H4N2 Avian Influenza Virus (AIV) Reduced Virus Fitness in Chickens which is Restored by Reassortment with Highly Pathogenic H5N1 AIV
2020-02-26
Abstract excerpt
Highly pathogenic (HP) avian influenza viruses (AIVs) are naturally restricted to H5 and H7 subtypes with a polybasic cleavage site (CS) in the hemagglutinin (HA) and any AIV with an intravenous pathogenicity index (IVPI) ≥1.2. Only few non-H5/H7 viruses fulfill the criteria of HPAIVs; nevertheless, it remains unknown why these viruses did not spread in domestic birds. In 2012, a unique H4N2 virus with a polyba...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8710b9a8-c0dc-54d3-b1f0-049351e19f69
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202002.0391.v1
