A new piece in the puzzle of the novel avian-origin influenza A (H7N9) virus

• Main Authors: Gunalan, Vithiagaran, Eisenhaber, Frank, Maurer-Stroh, Sebastian, Lee, Raphael Tze Chuen, Van, Thanh Dac, Le, Ly Thi
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98341; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38548
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Using phylogenetic analysis on newly available sequences, we characterize A/chicken/Jiangsu/RD5/2013(H10N9) as currently closest precursor strain for the NA segment in the novel avian-origin H7N9 virus responsible for an outbreak in China. We also show that the internal segments of this precursor st...