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SUBMITTER: Oshansky CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3121740 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oshansky Christine M CM Pickens Jennifer A JA Bradley Konrad C KC Jones Les P LP Saavedra-Ebner Geraldine M GM Barber James P JP Crabtree Jackelyn M JM Steinhauer David A DA Tompkins S Mark SM Tripp Ralph A RA
PloS one 20110623 6
Avian influenza viruses (AIV) are an important emerging threat to public health. It is thought that sialic acid (sia) receptors are barriers in cross-species transmission where the binding preferences of AIV and human influenza viruses are sias α2,3 versus α2,6, respectively. In this study, we show that a normal fully differentiated, primary human bronchial epithelial cell model is readily infected by low pathogenic H5N1, H5N2 and H5N3 AIV, which primarily bind to sia α2,3 moieties, and replicat ...[more]