Global & Disaster Medicine

1918 H1N1 & cytokine responses in ferrets: Could explain the severity of disease….

J Infect Dis

1918 H1N1 influenza virus replicates and induces pro-inflammatory cytokine responses in extra-respiratory tissues of ferrets.

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, jiy003, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiy003

Published: 10 January 2018

“….1918 H1N1 virus spread to, and induced cytokine responses in tissues outside the respiratory tract, which likely contributed to the severity of infection. Moreover, our data support the suggested link between 1918 H1N1 infection and CNS disease.….”

 

 


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