Acquisition of a polybasic hemagglutinin cleavage site by a low-pathogenic avian influenza virus is not sufficient for immediate transformation into a highly pathogenic strain

Journal of Virology

Volumn 83, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5864-5868

  Stech, Olga ^a   Veits, Jutta ^a   Weber, Siegfried ^a   Deckers, Daniela ^a   Schröer, Diana ^a   Vahlenkamp, Thomas W ^a   Breithaupt, Angele ^a   Teifke, Jens ^a   Mettenleiter, Thomas C ^a   Stech, Jürgen ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMAGGLUTININ; TRYPSIN; VIRUS PROTEIN; INFLUENZA VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ;

ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; CHICKEN; EVOLUTION; FOWL; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N8; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N2; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H7N7; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE CULTURE; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CLASSIFICATION; DOG; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; TRANSGENE; VIROLOGY;

AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHICKENS; DOGS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HEMAGGLUTININ GLYCOPROTEINS, INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H3N8 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N2 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H7N7 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; MUTATION; TRANSGENES;

EID: 66149151445     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02649-08     Document Type: Article

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