A single mutation in Taiwanese H6N1 influenza hemagglutinin switches binding to human-type receptors.
de Vries, R.P., Tzarum, N., Peng, W., Thompson, A.J., Ambepitiya Wickramasinghe, I.N., de la Pena, A.T.T., van Breemen, M.J., Bouwman, K.M., Zhu, X., McBride, R., Yu, W., Sanders, R.W., Verheije, M.H., Wilson, I.A., Paulson, J.C.(2017) EMBO Mol Med 9: 1314-1325
- PubMed: 28694323 
- DOI: 10.15252/emmm.201707726
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5T08, 5T0B, 5T0D, 5T0E - PubMed Abstract: 
In June 2013, the first case of human infection with an avian H6N1 virus was reported in a Taiwanese woman. Although this was a single non-fatal case, the virus continues to circulate in Taiwanese poultry. As with any emerging avian virus that infects humans, there is concern that acquisition of human-type receptor specificity could enable transmission in the human population ...