The Neuraminidase Stalk Deletion Serves as Major Virulence Determinant of H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses in Chicken

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Stech, Olga ^a   Veits, Jutta ^a   Abdelwhab, El Sayed M ^a   Wessels, Ute ^a   Mettenleiter, Thomas C ^a   Stech, Jürgen ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIALIDASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL; AVIAN INFLUENZA; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H5N1); METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; NEURAMINIDASE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84940094395     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep13493     Document Type: Article

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