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Haemagglutinin mutations responsible for the binding of H5N1 influenza A viruses to human-type recep...

Haemagglutinin mutations responsible for the binding of H5N1 influenza A viruses to human-type recep...

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Haemagglutinin mutations responsible for the binding of H5N1 influenza A viruses to human-type receptors

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Full title

Haemagglutinin mutations responsible for the binding of H5N1 influenza A viruses to human-type receptors

Publisher

London: Nature Publishing Group UK

Journal title

Nature, 2006-11, Vol.444 (7117), p.378-382

Language

English

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Publisher

London: Nature Publishing Group UK

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Contents

Pandemic potential
The fact that the H5N1 bird flu virus circulating in Asia, Europe and Africa is unable to attach to human-type cell receptors has helped to prevent it from causing a worldwide epidemic of a human variant of the disease. Now a study of H5N1 isolates from some of the few humans that have been infected (from Vietnam and Thailand)...

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Full title

Haemagglutinin mutations responsible for the binding of H5N1 influenza A viruses to human-type receptors

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Record Identifier

TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_68150919

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_68150919

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ISSN

0028-0836

E-ISSN

1476-4687,1476-4679

DOI

10.1038/nature05264

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