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A Miniaturized Glycan Microarray Assay for Assessing Avidity and Specificity of Influenza A Virus Hemagglutinins
Published on: May 29, 2016
Rationale for cross-species infection and cross-subtype mutation in hemagglutinins from influenza A virus
1National Engineering Research Center for Non-food Biorefinery, Guangxi Academy of Sciences, Nanning, Guangxi, P.R. China.
Abstract:
The current H1N1 swine pandemic raises the question why the cross-species infection and cross-subtype mutation are so easy. In this study, we use ANOVA to analyze all influenza A virus hemagglutinins available in database in order to answer this question. The results show that there are differences between species and between subtypes in most cases, but the intra-subtype/species variation is generally larger than the inter-subtype/species variation, which provides the rational for cross-species infection and cross-subtype mutation.
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