Bird Flu Infection (IMAGE)

Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association

Bird Flu Infection

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Microscopic image of human cells infected with flu viruses: The cell nucleus is shown in blue and the viral proteins in green. The viruses that have adapted to human hosts leave the cell nucleus after 14 hours (left), while the viruses that have adapted to bird hosts remain stuck in the nucleus.

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Selbach Lab, MDC.

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