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Why were so few people infected with H7N9 influenza A viruses in China from late 2017 to 2018?

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by funding from the National Key Research and Development Program (2016YFD0500201), and the CAS Pioneer Hundred Talents Program to Jie Cui.

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  1. CAS Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China

    Xiaoman Wei & Jie Cui

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Xiaoman Wei

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Wei, X., Cui, J. Why were so few people infected with H7N9 influenza A viruses in China from late 2017 to 2018?. Sci. China Life Sci. 61, 1442–1444 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-018-9406-4

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