H9 avian influenza reassortant with engineered polybasic cleavage site displays a highly pathogenic phenotype in chicken

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1843-1853

  Gohrbandt, Sandra ^a,b   Veits, Jutta ^a   Breithaupt, Angele ^a   Hundt, Jana ^a   Teifke, Jens P ^a   Stech, Olga ^a   Mettenleiter, Thomas C ^a   Stech, Jürgen ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b Institute of Immunology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMAGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS H5N1; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS H9N2; CHICKEN; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRULENCE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHICKENS; HEMAGGLUTININ GLYCOPROTEINS, INFLUENZA VIRUS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H9N2 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; REASSORTANT VIRUSES; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; VIRULENCE;

AVES; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS;

EID: 79960360331     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.031591-0     Document Type: Article

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