Looking beyond the H5 avian influenza viruses.

Autor: Honce R; Vermont Lung Center, Division of Pulmonology and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA., Schultz-Cherry S; Department of Host-Microbe Interactions, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA. Electronic address: stacey.schultz-cherry@stjude.org.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Cell [Cell] 2023 Sep 14; Vol. 186 (19), pp. 4003-4004.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.08.014
Abstrakt: Avian influenza viruses continue to cross the species barrier and infect mammals. In this issue of Cell, Sun and colleagues demonstrate that viruses obtained from humans infected with an emergent avian H3N8 viruses exhibit increasing accumulation of mutations that promote respiratory droplet transmission and disease in mammals.
Competing Interests: Declaration of interests The authors declare no competing interests.
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Databáze: MEDLINE