A single amino acid at the hemagglutinin cleavage site contributes to the pathogenicity but not the transmission of Egyptian highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus in chickens

Journal of Virology

Volumn 87, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4786-4788

  Yoon, Sun Woo ^a   Kayali, Ghazi ^a   Ali, Mohamed A ^b   Webster, Robert G ^a   Webby, Richard J ^a   Ducatez, Mariette F ^c  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; INFLUENZA VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION; INFLUENZA A (H5N1); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS SHEDDING; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; EGYPT; HEMAGGLUTININ GLYCOPROTEINS, INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; GALLUS GALLUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 84875767720     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.03551-12     Document Type: Article

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