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New England harbor seal H3N8 influenza virus retains avian-like receptor specificity

An influenza H3N8 virus, carrying mammalian adaptation mutations, was isolated from New England harbor seals in 2011. We sought to assess the risk of its human transmissibility using two complementary approaches. First, we tested the binding of recombinant hemagglutinin (HA) proteins of seal H3N8 an...

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Autores principales: Hussein, Islam T. M., Krammer, Florian, Ma, Eric, Estrin, Michael, Viswanathan, Karthik, Stebbins, Nathan W., Quinlan, Devin S., Sasisekharan, Ram, Runstadler, Jonathan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4757820/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26888262
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep21428