The decision to publish an avian H7N1 influenza virus gain-of-function experiment

Affiliations

¹ terry.dermody@vanderbilt.edu.
² Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
³ Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Irvine, California, USA.
⁴ Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

Editorial

Terence S Dermody et al. mBio. 2014.

. 2014 Oct 14;5(5):e01985-14.

doi: 10.1128/mBio.01985-14.

¹ terry.dermody@vanderbilt.edu.
² Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
³ Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Irvine, California, USA.
⁴ Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

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