100-year-old pandemic flu viruses yield new genomes

Martha I. Nelson () and Elodie Ghedin

Nature, 2022, vol. 607, issue 7918, 244-245

Abstract: Lung samples housed in medical archives have yielded three genomes for the influenza A virus that caused the 1918 global pandemic. The sequences reveal mutations that might have triggered the pandemic’s devastating second wave.

Keywords: Virology; Genomics; Evolution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1038/d41586-022-01741-9

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