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SUBMITTER: Fanning TG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC136362 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fanning Thomas G TG Slemons Richard D RD Reid Ann H AH Janczewski Thomas A TA Dean James J Taubenberger Jeffery K JK
Journal of virology 20020801 15
Wild waterfowl captured between 1915 and 1919 were tested for influenza A virus RNA. One bird, captured in 1917, was infected with a virus of the same hemagglutinin (HA) subtype as that of the 1918 pandemic virus. The 1917 HA is more closely related to that of modern avian viruses than it is to that of the pandemic virus, suggesting (i) that there was little drift in avian sequences over the past 85 years and (ii) that the 1918 pandemic virus did not acquire its HA directly from a bird. ...[more]