Avian influenza A H5N1: are we really sure it is a spillover?

Pathog Glob Health. 2023 Jun;117(4):323-325. doi: 10.1080/20477724.2023.2201980. Epub 2023 Apr 12.

¹ Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
² Instituto Rene Rachou, Fundação Oswaldo, Cruz, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
³ Sciences and Technologies for Sustainable Development and One Health, University of Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy.
⁴ Department of Biochemical Sciences "A. Rossi Fanelli", Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy.
⁵ Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
⁶ Unit of Medical Statistics and Molecular Epidemiology, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Rome, Italy.

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Keywords: H5N1; antigenic drift; antigenic shift; avian influenza A; epidemic; genetic drift; spillover.

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