Amino acids adjacent to the haemagglutinin cleavage site are relevant for virulence of avian influenza viruses of subtype H5

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-59

  Gohrbandt, Sandra ^a   Veits, Jutta ^a   Hundt, Jana ^a   Bogs, Jessica ^a   Breithaupt, Angele ^a   Teifke, Jens P ^a   Weber, Siegfried ^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; SERINE; THREONINE; VALINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOWL; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRULENCE; VIRUS MUTANT;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; GERMANY; HEMAGGLUTININS, VIRAL; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION, MISSENSE; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 78651253699     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.023887-0     Document Type: Article

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