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Influenza virus-flow from insects to humans as causative for influenza seasonality

Virus biomass outweighs human biomass, and insects biomass outweighs human biomass. Insects are regularly habited by viruses as well as humans, humans are further inhabited via insects. A model of viral flow is described and specified to explain influenza virus seasonality, which, in temperate clima...

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Autor principal: Pfäfflin, Albrecht
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7545380/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33036642
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13062-020-00272-5
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description Virus biomass outweighs human biomass, and insects biomass outweighs human biomass. Insects are regularly habited by viruses as well as humans, humans are further inhabited via insects. A model of viral flow is described and specified to explain influenza virus seasonality, which, in temperate climate, usually evolves when insects have mostly disappeared. With this hypothesis a coherent description of regular seasonal influenza and other seasonal respiratory virus infections in temperate climates is possible. The incidence of influenza under different circumstances e.g. temperature, humidity, or tropical conditions and different aspects like synchronicity of infections or in respect to evolutionary conditions do sustain this hypothesis if the behaviour of insects is considered.
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spelling pubmed-75453802020-10-09 Influenza virus-flow from insects to humans as causative for influenza seasonality Pfäfflin, Albrecht Biol Direct Hypothesis Virus biomass outweighs human biomass, and insects biomass outweighs human biomass. Insects are regularly habited by viruses as well as humans, humans are further inhabited via insects. A model of viral flow is described and specified to explain influenza virus seasonality, which, in temperate climate, usually evolves when insects have mostly disappeared. With this hypothesis a coherent description of regular seasonal influenza and other seasonal respiratory virus infections in temperate climates is possible. The incidence of influenza under different circumstances e.g. temperature, humidity, or tropical conditions and different aspects like synchronicity of infections or in respect to evolutionary conditions do sustain this hypothesis if the behaviour of insects is considered. BioMed Central 2020-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7545380/ /pubmed/33036642 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13062-020-00272-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Influenza virus-flow from insects to humans as causative for influenza seasonality
title Influenza virus-flow from insects to humans as causative for influenza seasonality
title_full Influenza virus-flow from insects to humans as causative for influenza seasonality
title_fullStr Influenza virus-flow from insects to humans as causative for influenza seasonality
title_full_unstemmed Influenza virus-flow from insects to humans as causative for influenza seasonality
title_short Influenza virus-flow from insects to humans as causative for influenza seasonality
title_sort influenza virus-flow from insects to humans as causative for influenza seasonality
topic Hypothesis
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7545380/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33036642
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13062-020-00272-5
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