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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9415
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-4-5
pubmed:abstractText
In response to the emergence of severe infection capable of rapid global spread, WHO will issue a pandemic alert. Such alerts are rare; however, on Feb 19, 2003, a pandemic alert was issued in response to human infections caused by an avian H5N1 influenza virus, A/Hong Kong/213/03. H5N1 had been noted once before in human beings in 1997 and killed a third (6/18) of infected people. The 2003 variant seemed to have been transmitted directly from birds to human beings and caused fatal pneumonia in one of two infected individuals. Candidate vaccines were sought, but no avirulent viruses antigenically similar to the pathogen were available, and the isolate killed embryonated chicken eggs. Since traditional strategies of vaccine production were not viable, we sought to produce a candidate reference virus using reverse genetics.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1474-547X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
3
pubmed:volume
363
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1099-103
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15064027-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15064027-Antibodies, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:15064027-Asia, pubmed-meshheading:15064027-Birds, pubmed-meshheading:15064027-Communicable Disease Control, pubmed-meshheading:15064027-Disease Outbreaks, pubmed-meshheading:15064027-Drug Design, pubmed-meshheading:15064027-Genetic Engineering, pubmed-meshheading:15064027-Hong Kong, pubmed-meshheading:15064027-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15064027-Influenza A virus, pubmed-meshheading:15064027-Influenza Vaccines, pubmed-meshheading:15064027-Influenza in Birds, pubmed-meshheading:15064027-Orthomyxoviridae, pubmed-meshheading:15064027-Orthomyxoviridae Infections, pubmed-meshheading:15064027-Plasmids, pubmed-meshheading:15064027-Poultry Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:15064027-Reassortant Viruses, pubmed-meshheading:15064027-Transformation, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:15064027-Virulence Factors
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Responsiveness to a pandemic alert: use of reverse genetics for rapid development of influenza vaccines.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Infectious Diseases, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA. richard.webby@stjude.org
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't