Communications Biology (Sep 2022)

Assessing the fitness of a dual-antiviral drug resistant human influenza virus in the ferret model

  • Harry L. Stannard,
  • Edin J. Mifsud,
  • Steffen Wildum,
  • Sook Kwan Brown,
  • Paulina Koszalka,
  • Takao Shishido,
  • Satoshi Kojima,
  • Shinya Omoto,
  • Keiko Baba,
  • Klaus Kuhlbusch,
  • Aeron C. Hurt,
  • Ian G. Barr

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04005-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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A clinical influenza isolate with dual antiviral resistant mutations displays a moderate loss of viral fitness in ferrets compared to wild-type virus, suggesting widespread community transmission of this dual mutant is unlikely.