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G K Hirst1

  • 1Laboratories of the International Health Division of The Rockefeller Foundation, New York.

The Journal of Experimental Medicine
|October 30, 2009
PubMed
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Influenza virus rapidly adsorbs to ferret lung cells, releasing infectious virus within hours. This interaction, similar to avian red blood cells, suggests receptor destruction is key to viral infection.

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