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Influenza
Study data from University of Arizona update understanding of influenza
June 17th, 2008
"Zhang et al. (G. Zhang, D. Shoham, D. Gilichinsky, S. Davydov, J. D. Castello, and S. O. Rogers, J. Virol. 80:12229-12235, 2006) have claimed to have recovered influenza A virus RNA from Siberian lake ice, postulating that ice might represent an important abiotic reservoir for the persistence and reemergence of this medically important pathogen. A rigorous phylogenetic analysis of these influenza A virus hemagglutinin gene sequences, however, indicates that they originated from a laboratory reference strain derived from the earliest human influenza A virus isolate, WS/33," scientists writing in the Journal of Virology report. "Contrary to Zhang et al.'s...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-06-17)
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