Avian influenza virus NS1
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Avian influenza viruses (AIV) of H5N1 and H9N2 subtypes have zoonotic and pandemic potential. 377 out of 633 human infections with H5N1 virus were fatal and human infections by H9N2 virus were infrequently reported to the World Health Organization. Some H9N2 viruses either possessed genes similar to the H5N1 virus or were claimed to donate gene segments to H5N1 virus. Both features were reported in the Pakistani H9N2 viruses that have been recorded to be genetically similar to H5N1 isolated in Hong Kong in 1997 and also pertained a gene segment encoding the non-structural proteins (NS) almost identical to the co-circulating H5N1. Therefore, it is important to compare biologically the impact of NS1 protein on replication and within-host cell dynamics of H5N1 and H9N2 viruses which have been recently studied by Munir and coworkers and published in this issue of Virulence.
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