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SUBMITTER: Wu Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7127364 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wu Ying Y Wu Yan Y Tefsen Boris B Shi Yi Y Gao George F GF
Trends in microbiology 20140226 4
Shorebirds and waterfowls are believed to be the reservoir hosts for influenza viruses, whereas swine putatively act as mixing vessels. The recent identification of two influenza-like virus genomes (designated H17N10 and H18N11) from bats has challenged this notion. A crucial question concerns the role bats might play in influenza virus ecology. Structural and functional studies of the two major surface envelope proteins, hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA), demonstrate that neither has ca ...[more]