Viral factors in influenza pandemic risk assessment

Viral factors in influenza pandemic risk assessment

The threat of an influenza A virus pandemic stems from continual virus spillovers from reservoir species, a tiny fraction of which spark sustained transmission in humans. To date, no pandemic emergence of a new influenza strain has been preceded by detection of a closely related precursor in an anim...

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Main Authors: Marc Lipsitch, Wendy Barclay, Rahul Raman, Charles J Russell, Jessica A Belser, Sarah Cobey, Peter M Kasson, James O Lloyd-Smith, Sebastian Maurer-Stroh, Steven Riley, Catherine AA Beauchemin, Trevor Bedford, Thomas C Friedrich, Andreas Handel, Sander Herfst, Pablo R Murcia, Benjamin Roche, Claus O Wilke, Colin A Russell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2016-11-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
pandemic
risk prediction
influenza A
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/18491

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https://elifesciences.org/articles/18491

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