Receptor specificity and transmission of H2N2 subtype viruses isolated from the pandemic of 1957.

Receptor specificity and transmission of H2N2 subtype viruses isolated from the pandemic of 1957.

Influenza viruses of the H2N2 subtype have not circulated among humans in over 40 years. The occasional isolation of avian H2 strains from swine and avian species coupled with waning population immunity to H2 hemagglutinin (HA) warrants investigation of this subtype due to its pandemic potential. In...

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Main Authors: Claudia Pappas, Karthik Viswanathan, Aarthi Chandrasekaran, Rahul Raman, Jacqueline M Katz, Ram Sasisekharan, Terrence M Tumpey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-06-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2888575?pdf=render

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