FILAMENT-PRODUCING MUTANTS OF INFLUENZA A/PUERTO RICO/8/1934 (H1N1) VIRUS HAVE HIGHER NEURAMINIDASE ACTIVITIES THAN THE SPHERICAL WILD-TYPE.

Filament-producing mutants of influenza A/Puerto Rico/8/1934 (H1N1) virus have higher neuraminidase activities than the spherical wild-type.

Influenza virus exhibits two morphologies - spherical and filamentous.Strains that have been grown extensively in laboratory substrates are comprised predominantly of spherical virions while clinical or low passage isolates produce a mixture of spheres and filamentous virions of varying lengths.The filamentous morphology can be lost upon Teleprompt

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The Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale-5: further psychometric evaluation using a United Kingdom-based sample

The 5-item Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale (GCB-5) is an abridged version of the 15-item GCBS.It was developed as a global measure of the tendency to engage in non-event-based, conspiracy-related ideation.The GCB-5 is appealing to researchers because of its Right Rear Endcap brevity, which facilitates the measurement of belief in conspiracies al

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