Strong interferon-inducing capacity of a highly virulent variant of influenza A virus strain PR8 with deletions in the NS1 gene

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2990-2994

  Kochs, Georg ^a   Martńez Sobrido, Luis ^b   Lienenklaus, Stefan ^c   Weiss, Siefried ^c   García Sastre, Adolfo ^d   Staeheli, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA INTERFERON; INTERFERON; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INTERFERON-BETA; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTATION; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRULENCE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

INFLUENZA A VIRUS; MUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 70849104038     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.015727-0     Document Type: Article

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