Publication Date:
2015-06-19
Description:
Article Understanding the factors that enable some bird flu viruses to infect humans is important for the identification of circulating viruses with higher potential to infect us. Here, Taft et al. identify novel mutations in the polymerase of an avian H5N1 virus that help the virus to replicate in human cells and in mice Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms8491 Authors: Andrew S. Taft, Makoto Ozawa, Adam Fitch, Jay V. Depasse, Peter J. Halfmann, Lindsay Hill-Batorski, Masato Hatta, Thomas C. Friedrich, Tiago J. S. Lopes, Eileen A. Maher, Elodie Ghedin, Catherine A. Macken, Gabriele Neumann, Yoshihiro Kawaoka
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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