Zoonotic potential of influenza A viruses: a comprehensive overview

A Mostafa, EM Abdelwhab, TC Mettenleiter, S Pleschka - Viruses, 2018 - mdpi.com
Influenza A viruses (IAVs) possess a great zoonotic potential as they are able to infect
different avian and mammalian animal hosts, from which they can be transmitted to humans …

Advances in the development of influenza virus vaccines

F Krammer, P Palese - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2015 - nature.com
Influenza virus infections are a major public health concern and cause significant morbidity
and mortality worldwide. Current influenza virus vaccines are an effective countermeasure …

Pathogenicity and transmissibility of bovine H5N1 influenza virus

AJ Eisfeld, A Biswas, L Guan, C Gu, T Maemura… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza (HPAI H5N1) viruses occasionally infect, but
typically do not transmit, in mammals. In the spring of 2024, an unprecedented outbreak of …

[HTML][HTML] Outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) clade 2.3. 4.4 b virus in cats, Poland, June to July 2023

K Domańska-Blicharz, E Świętoń… - …, 2023 - eurosurveillance.org
Background Over a 3-week period in late June/early July 2023, Poland experienced an
outbreak caused by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A (H5N1) virus in cats. Aim …

Characterization of neurotropic HPAI H5N1 viruses with novel genome constellations and mammalian adaptive mutations in free-living mesocarnivores in Canada

TN Alkie, S Cox, C Embury-Hyatt… - Emerging microbes & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The GsGd lineage (A/goose/Guangdong/1/1996) H5N1 virus was introduced to Canada in
2021/2022 through the Atlantic and East Asia-Australasia/Pacific flyways by migratory birds …

Human infection with a novel avian-origin influenza A (H7N9) virus

R Gao, B Cao, Y Hu, Z Feng, D Wang… - … England Journal of …, 2013 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Infection of poultry with influenza A subtype H7 viruses occurs worldwide, but
the introduction of this subtype to humans in Asia has not been observed previously. In …

Rapid evolution of H7N9 highly pathogenic viruses that emerged in China in 2017

J Shi, G Deng, S Ma, X Zeng, X Yin, M Li, B Zhang… - Cell host & …, 2018 - cell.com
H7N9 low pathogenic influenza viruses emerged in China in 2013 and mutated to highly
pathogenic strains in 2017, resulting in human infections and disease in chickens. To control …

Experimental adaptation of an influenza H5 HA confers respiratory droplet transmission to a reassortant H5 HA/H1N1 virus in ferrets

M Imai, T Watanabe, M Hatta, SC Das, M Ozawa… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Highly pathogenic avian H5N1 influenza A viruses occasionally infect humans, but currently
do not transmit efficiently among humans. The viral haemagglutinin (HA) protein is a known …

At the centre: influenza A virus ribonucleoproteins

AJ Eisfeld, G Neumann, Y Kawaoka - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2015 - nature.com
Influenza A viral ribonucleoprotein (vRNP) complexes comprise the eight genomic negative-
sense RNAs, each of which is bound to multiple copies of the vRNP and a trimeric viral …

Viral quasispecies evolution

E Domingo, J Sheldon, C Perales - Microbiology and Molecular …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Evolution of RNA viruses occurs through disequilibria of collections of closely related mutant
spectra or mutant clouds termed viral quasispecies. Here we review the origin of the …