Influenza viruses that require 10 genomic segments as antiviral therapeutics.

Influenza A viruses (IAVs) encode their genome across eight, negative sense RNA segments. During viral assembly, the failure to package all eight segments, or packaging a mutated segment, renders the resulting virion incompletely infectious. It is known that the accumulation of these defective parti...

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Main Authors: Alfred T Harding, Griffin D Haas, Benjamin S Chambers, Nicholas S Heaton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-11-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008098