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: Lipsitch, Marc (Author), Barclay, Wendy (Author), Raman, Rahul (Contributor), Russell, Charles J (Author), Belser, Jessica A (Author), Cobey, Sarah (Author), Kasson, Peter M (Author), Lloyd-Smith, James O (Author), Maurer-Stroh, Sebastian (Author), Riley, Steven (Author), Beauchemin, Catherine AA (Author), Bedford, Trevor (Author), Friedrich, Thomas C (Author), Handel, Andreas (Author), Herfst, Sander (Author), Murcia, Pablo R (Author), Roche, Benjamin (Author), Wilke, Claus O (Author), Russell, Colin A (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering (Contributor), Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd., 2017-03-28T16:04:09Z.
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