Evolution of highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza A virus in the central nervous system of ferrets

• Jurre Y. Siegers ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jurre Y. Siegers, Lucas Ferreri

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Lucas Ferreri ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jurre Y. Siegers, Lucas Ferreri

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Dirk Eggink,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Edwin J. B. Veldhuis Kroeze,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Aartjan J. W. te Velthuis,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Marco van de Bildt,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Lonneke Leijten,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Peter van Run,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Dennis de Meulder,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Theo Bestebroer,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Mathilde Richard,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Thijs Kuiken,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Anice C. Lowen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Sander Herfst,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Debby van Riel

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: d.vanriel@erasmusmc.nl

  Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9753-3564

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