Seasonal and pandemic strains of flu virus differentially affect the human immune system's interferon response, according to new single cell study

Seasonal and pandemic strains of flu virus differentially affect the human immune system's interferon response, according to new single cell study.

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Article URL: http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1012727

Article Title: Seasonal influenza a virus lineages exhibit divergent abilities to antagonize interferon induction and signaling

Author Countries: United States

Funding: This study was generously supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under awards 1R01AI179910 and 1R01AI139246 to C.B.B. and 1R01AI165475 to N.C.W. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.