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Autopsy series of 68 cases dying before and during the 1918 influenza pandemic peak
Edited* by Robert G. Webster, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, and approved August 16, 2011 (received for review July 11, 2011)

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- Published in issue September 27, 2011.
- Published first September 19, 2011.
Author Information
- Zong-Mei Shenga,
- Daniel S. Chertowa,
- Xavier Ambroggiob,
- Sherman McCallc,
- Ronald M. Przygodzkid,
- Robert E. Cunninghame,
- Olga A. Maximovaf,
- John C. Kasha,
- David M. Morensg, and
- Jeffery K. Taubenbergera,1
- aViral Pathogenesis and Evolution Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases,
- bBioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch,
- fOffice of the Chief, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, and
- gOffice of the Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892;
- cClinical Pathology Laboratory, US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, MD 21702;
- dDepartment of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC 20420; and
- eDepartment of Biophysics, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rockville, MD 20850
Edited* by Robert G. Webster, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, and approved August 16, 2011 (received for review July 11, 2011)
Footnotes
- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: taubenbergerj{at}niaid.nih.gov.
Author contributions: J.K.T. designed research; Z.-M.S., D.S.C., X.A., S.M., R.M.P., R.E.C., O.A.M., J.C.K., and J.K.T. performed research; X.A. and O.A.M. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; Z.-M.S., D.S.C., X.A., J.C.K., D.M.M., and J.K.T. analyzed data; and J.K.T. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Data deposition: The sequences reported in this paper have been deposited in the GenBank database (accession no. JN620390–JN620401).
↵*This Direct Submission article had a prearranged editor.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1111179108/-/DCSupplemental.
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