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Publications

Letter Ahead of print

PubMed: 41831654 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2026.106722

Clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 influenza A virus exhibits high infectivity in human respiratory tract models.

J Infect

Authors: Anna Löwa, Matthias Budt, Anita Balázs, Victor Sikora, Mark Melzer, Tihomir Rubil, Annika E Pfeiffer, Mara Fischer, Maren Mieth, Katharina Hellwig, Emanuel Wyler, Diego G Diel, Mario Tönnies, Torsten T Bauer, Mareike Graff, Jens Neudecker, Jens-C Rückert, Marcus A Mall, Achim D Gruber, Markus Landthaler, Lisa Buchauer, Stefan Hippenstiel, Thorsten Wolff, Andreas C Hocke

Affiliations

  • Department of Infectious Diseases, Respiratory Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
  • Unit 17 "Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses", Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
  • Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical Care Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; German Center for Lung Research (DZL), associated partner site Berlin, Berlin, Germany; German Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DZKJ), partner site Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
  • Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB), Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC) and IRI Life Sciences, Institute for Biology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
  • Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
  • HELIOS Clinic Emil von Behring, Department of Pneumology and Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chest Hospital Heckeshorn, Berlin, Germany.
  • Department for Thoracic Surgery, DRK Clinics, Berlin, Germany.
  • Department of General, Visceral, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
  • Institute of Veterinary Pathology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
  • Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB), Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC) and IRI Life Sciences, Institute for Biology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Institute for Biology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
  • Department of Infectious Diseases, Respiratory Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

MeSH

Bacterial Infections, Influenza A Virus, Influenza, Human, Viruses, Communicable Diseases