Functional balance between haemagglutini
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Ralf Wagner; Mikhail Matrosovich; Hans-Dieter Klenk
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Article
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2002
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Influenza A and B viruses carry two surface glycoproteins, the haemagglutinin (HA) and the neuraminidase (NA). Both proteins have been found to recognise the same host cell molecule, sialic acid. HA binds to sialic acidβcontaining receptors on target cells to initiate virus infection, w