Origin and diversity of novel avian influenza A H7N9 viruses causing human infection: phylogenetic, structural, and coalescent analyses
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...During the past decade, several new infectious diseases have emerged: for example, SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and its related coronavirus,(1) the A H1/N1 human flu strand that was responsible for a 2009 pandemic,(2) and the bird flu strain H7N9 that recently infected humans in China and caused more than 30 deaths.(3) For some newly recognized diseases, there still is no effective prevention or treatment....
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...Jiangsu, Shanghai, and Zhejiang, the first provinces that experienced outbreaks of the novel H7N9 viruses on humans (1, 3), are ideally situated for the cocirculation of H9N2, H7, and N9 viruses....
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...Phylogenetic analysis suggests that the virus is a triple reassortant of H7, N9, and H9N2 avian influenza viruses (3, 4)....
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