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Influenza
Findings from University of Wisconsin, Medical Department in influenza reported
January 13th, 2009
According to a study from the United States, "Reassortment is an important driving force for influenza virus evolution, and a better understanding of the factors that affect this process could improve our ability to respond to future influenza pandemics and epidemics. To identify factors that restrict the generation of reassortant viruses, we cotransfected human embryonic kidney cells with plasmids for the synthesis of viral RNAs of both A/equine/Prague/1/56 (Prague; H7N7) and A/Yokohama/2017/03 (Yokohama; H3N2) viruses together with the supporting protein expression plasmids." "Of the possible 256 genotypes, we identified 29 genotypes in 120 randomly plaque-picked...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-01-13)
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