The host tropism of current zoonotic H7N9 viruses depends mainly on an acid-labile hemagglutinin with a single amino acid mutation in the stalk region

• Tomo Daidoji ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: t-daidoji@rakuno.ac.jp

  Affiliations Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Hokkaido, Japan, Department of Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6881-0817

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• Hiroki Sadakane,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

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• Kotaro Garan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

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• Norihito Kawashita,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kindai University, Osaka, Japan

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• Yasuha Arai,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

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• Yohei Watanabe,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

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• Takaaki Nakaya

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

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