New England harbor seal H3N8 influenza virus retains avian-like receptor specificity

New England harbor seal H3N8 influenza virus retains avian-like receptor specificity

An influenza H3N8 virus, carrying mammalian adaptation mutations, was isolated from New England harbor seals in 2011. We sought to assess the risk of its human transmissibility using two complementary approaches. First, we tested the binding of recombinant hemagglutinin (HA) proteins of seal H3N8 an...

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Main Authors: Krammer, Florian, Estrin, Michael, Viswanathan, Karthik, Stebbins, Nathan W., Sasisekharan, Ram, Runstadler, Jonathan, Hussein, Islam, Ma, Eric Jinglong, Quinlan, Devin Scott
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101878
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1288-9965
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2085-7840
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6747-7765
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101878
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1288-9965
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2085-7840
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6747-7765
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0041-5989
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6528-0125
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6977-7403

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