Biological heterogeneity, including systemic replication in mice, of H5N1 influenza A virus isolates from humans in Hong Kong

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 3184-3189

  Gao, Peng ^a   Watanabe, Shinji ^a,b   Ito, Toshihiro ^c   Goto, Hideo ^a   Wells, Krisna ^a   Mcgregor, Martha ^a   James Cooley, A ^a   Kawaoka, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FURIN; HEMAGGLUTININ; PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HONG KONG; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS HEMAGGLUTINATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TITRATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TYPING; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033014710     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.4.3184-3189.1999     Document Type: Article

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