Natural and synthetic sialic acid-contai
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Mikhail Matrosovich; Hans-Dieter Klenk
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Influenza viruses attach to susceptible cells via multivalent interactions of their haemagglutinins with sialyloligosaccharide moieties of cellular glycoconjugates. Soluble macromolecules containing sialic acid from animal sera and mucosal fluids can act as decoy receptors and competitively inhibit