TY - JOUR AU - Yuan, Bing AU - Yang, Chunguang AU - Xia, Xueshan AU - Zanin, Mark AU - Wong, Sook-san AU - Yang, Fan AU - Chang, Jixiang AU - Mai, Zhitong AU - Zhao, Jin AU - Zhang, Yunhui AU - Li, Runfeng AU - Zhong, Nanshan AU - Yang, Zifeng PY - 2019 DA - 2019/06/07 TI - The tree shrew is a promising model for the study of influenza B virus infection JO - Virology Journal SP - 77 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - Influenza B virus is a main causative pathogen of annual influenza epidemics, however, research on influenza B virus in general lags behind that on influenza A viruses, one of the important reasons is studies on influenza B viruses in animal models are limited. Here we investigated the tree shrew as a potential model for influenza B virus studies. SN - 1743-422X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12985-019-1171-3 DO - 10.1186/s12985-019-1171-3 ID - Yuan2019 ER -