Haemagglutinin D222G mutation found in a fatal case of pandemic (H1N1) flu in Tunisia

Archives of Virology

Volumn 157, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1813-1814

  El Moussi, Awatef ^a   Ledesma, Juan ^b   Ben Hadj Kacem, Mohamed Ali ^a   Pozo, Francisco ^b   Cuevas, Maria Teresa ^b   Hamdoun, Moncef ^a   Casas, Inmaculada ^b   Perez Breña, Pilar ^b   Slim, Amine ^a  

^a CHARLES NICOLLE HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMAGGLUTININ FUSOGENIC PEPTIDE, INFLUENZA VIRUS; MUTANT PROTEIN; VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DNA SEQUENCE; FATALITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORTALITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; TUNISIA; VIROLOGY;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMAGGLUTININS, VIRAL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUNISIA;

EID: 84865708368     PISSN: 03048608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-012-1349-0     Document Type: Article

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