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, Barclay, Wendy, Raman, Rahul, Russell, Charles J, Belser, Jessica A, Cobey, Sarah, Kasson, Peter M, Lloyd-Smith, James O, Maurer-Stroh, Sebastian, Riley, Steven, Beauchemin, Catherine AA, Bedford, Trevor, Friedrich, Thomas C, Handel, Andreas, Herfst, Sander, Murcia, Pablo R, Roche, Benjamin, Wilke, Claus O, Russell, Colin A
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5156527/