European H16N3 gull influenza virus attaches to the human respiratory tract and eye.

Cecilia Lindskog , Patrik Ellström , Björn Olsen , Fredrik Pontén , Debby van Riel (1) , Vincent J Munster , Daniel González-Acuña , Thijs Kuiken (2) , Elsa Jourdain (3)

1 Department of Immunology
2 Department of Virology
3 EPSP

We explored the attachment of an H16N3 influenza virus to human, mallard, and gull tissues using virus histochemistry applied to tissue microarrays and employing human and mallard viruses as references. Of the viruses tested, the H16N3 gull virus most readily attached to the human respiratory tract and eye. These results underscore the need to assess the potential for gull influenza viruses to replicate in human tissues and further investigate the role of gulls in influenza virus ecology.

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Cecilia Lindskog, Patrik Ellström, Björn Olsen, Fredrik Pontén, Debby van Riel, et al.. European H16N3 gull influenza virus attaches to the human respiratory tract and eye.. PLoS ONE, 2013, 8 (4), pp.e60757. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0060757⟩. ⟨hal-00972553⟩