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Recent human influenza A (H1N1) viruses are closely related genetically to strains isolated in 1950

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Comparison of the oligonucleotide maps of the RNAs of current human influenza (H1N1) virus isolates shows these strains to be much more closely related to viruses isolated in 1950 than to strains which circulated before or after that period.

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  1. Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine of CUNY, New York, New York, 10029

    Katsuhisa Nakajima, Ulrich Desselberger & Peter Palese

  2. The Institute of Public Health, Tokyo, Japan

    Katsuhisa Nakajima

  3. Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, FRG

    Ulrich Desselberger

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Nakajima, K., Desselberger, U. & Palese, P. Recent human influenza A (H1N1) viruses are closely related genetically to strains isolated in 1950. Nature 274, 334–339 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/274334a0

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