| Literature DB >> 20686037 |
Cássio Pontes Octaviani1, Makoto Ozawa, Shinya Yamada, Hideo Goto, Yoshihiro Kawaoka.
Abstract
Reassortment is an important mechanism for the evolution of influenza viruses. Here, we coinfected cultured cells with the pandemic swine-origin influenza virus (S-OIV) and a contemporary H5N1 virus and found that these two viruses have high genetic compatibility. Studies of human lung cell lines indicated that some reassortants had better growth kinetics than their parental viruses. We conclude that reassortment between these two viruses can occur and could create pandemic H5N1 viruses.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20686037 PMCID: PMC2950597 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01140-10
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103