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ReviewProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America1999

1918 Spanish influenza: the secrets remain elusive.

R G Webster

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Review in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Overcoming NS1-mediated immune antagonism involves both interferon-dependent and independent mechanisms.Journal of interferon & cytokine research : the official journal of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research · 2013
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  12. Influenza virus targets the mRNA export machinery and the nuclear pore complex.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2007
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  15. The haemagglutinin gene, but not the neuraminidase gene, of 'Spanish flu' was a recombinant.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2001
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  16. The predicted antigenicity of the haemagglutinin of the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic suggests an avian origin.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2001
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

R G WebsterDepartment of Virology and Molecular Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 332 North Lauderdale, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.

Funding

Viral Vector Technology (VVTSR)P30CA021765 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI SUZANNE J. BAKER · 1985 to 2026
$166.9M
MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY OF PANDEMIC INFLUENZAR01AI029680 · NIAID · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI WEBSTER, ROBERT G. · 1990 to 2000
$614k
NCI NIH HHS CA-21765NCI NIH HHS P30 CA021765NIAID NIH HHS AI29680
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza VirusHistory, 20th CenturyHumansInfluenza A virusInfluenza, HumanLungSpainHemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus

Identifiers

PMID9989993
PMCPMC33548

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