Biosafety recommendations for work with influenza viruses containing a hemagglutinin from the A/goose/guangdong/1/96 lineage

MMWR Recommendations and Reports

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gangadharan, Denise ^a   Smith, Jacinta ^a   Weyant, Robbin ^a  

^a Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response   (United States)

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