Abstract

New technologies are urgently required for rapid surveillance of the current H5N1 avian influenza A outbreaks to gauge the potential for adaptation of the virus to the human population, a crucial step in the emergence of pandemic influenza virus strains. Owing to the species-specific nature of the interaction between the virus and host glycans, attention has recently focused on novel glycan array technologies that can rapidly assess virus receptor specificity and the potential emergence of human-adapted H5N1 viruses.

Author affiliations

1. James Stevens, Ola Blixt, James C. Paulson and Ian A. Wilson are at the Department of Molecular Biology; Ola Blixt and James C. Paulson are also with the Glycan Array Synthesis Core-D, Consortium for Functional Glycomics,The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
   Email: jstevens@scripps.edu
   Email: olablixt@scripps.edu
   Email: jpaulson@scripps.edu
   Email: wilson@scripps.edu

Published online 2 October 2006

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