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Bird Flu
Research from B.C. Lin and co-researchers yields new findings on bird flu
May 19th, 2009
According to recent research from the United States, "Zoonotic microbes have historically been, and continue to emerge as, threats to human health. The recent outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in bird populations and the appearance of some human infections have increased the concern of a possible new influenza pandemic, which highlights the need for broad-spectrum detection methods for rapidly identifying the spread or outbreak of all variants of avian influenza virus." "In this study, we demonstrate that high-density resequencing pathogen microarrays (RPM) can be such a tool. The results from 37 influenza virus isolates show that the RPM platform is...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-05-19)
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