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...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| 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 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0041-5989 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6528-0125 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6977-7403 |