Enhancement of influenza virus transmission by gene reassortment

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 385, Issue , 2014, Pages 185-204

  Li, Chengjun ^a   Chen, Hualan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ARTICLE; GENETIC REASSORTMENT; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H7N9; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H9N2; NONHUMAN; SWINE INFLUENZA VIRUS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; METABOLISM; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS INFECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; CAVIA; HUMAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; MUSTELA; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; SWINE INFLUENZA VIRUS;

VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; REASSORTANT VIRUSES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84921733961     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: 21969965     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/82_2014_389     Document Type: Article

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