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unusual facts about Hemagglutinin-neuraminidase


Paramyxoviridae

HN (Hemagglutinin-neuraminidase) attachment proteins occur in respiroviruses, rubulaviruses and avulaviruses.


Influenza A virus subtype H3N2

The Hong Kong flu strain shared internal genes and the neuraminidase with the 1957 Asian flu (H2N2).

PLOS Medicine

In April 2012, PLOS Medicine published an article by three researchers who were involved in ongoing updates of a Cochrane Collaboration review of neuraminidase inhibitors for treating influenza, describing their experience of trying to gain access to clinical study reports for the antiviral Tamiflu (oseltamivir) from the drug's manufacturer Roche.


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