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Bird Flu Epidemiology
Studies from N. Waybright and co-researchers in the area of bird flu epidemiology published
January 27th, 2009
New research, 'Detection of human virulence signatures in H5N1,' is the subject of a report. "A method for detecting the emergence of potential pandemic-causing influenza strains has been developed. The system first uses real-time RT-PCR to detect H5, the highly pathogenic avian influenza subtype most likely to cause a pandemic," researchers in the United States report. "Pyrosequencing is then employed to scan for codon changes encoding amino acids known to define human influenza versus avian influenza signatures. The pyrosequencing assays were developed to screen at the nucleotide level for 52 amino acid changes defined as avian-or human-specific. A library has been...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-01-27)
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