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Fiona Burmeister

Texas Biomedical Research InstituteORCID 0000-0001-7776-6977Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Organism:mouse· 1

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Enhanced Pathogenicity and Contact Transmissibility of Human-origin Avian Influenza H5N1 Clade 2.3.4.4b Genotype B3.13 Compared to D1.1 in Ferrets

Elsayed M. Abdelwhab, Ramya S. Barre, Mahmoud M. Bayoumi, Alvaro Padrón, Hossein Batebi, Vinay Shivanna, Roy N. Platt, Fiona Burmeister, Joshua Castro, Arash Rahmani, Chengjin Ye, Timothy J. C. Anderson, Roland R. Netz, Aitor Nogales, Robert P. de Vries, , Luis Martínez‐Sobrido

This study compares the pathogenicity and transmissibility of two H5N1 genotypes in ferrets, finding B3.13 is more pathogenic and transmissible than D1.1, while D1.1 acquires adaptive mutations rapidly.

bioRxiv · Aug 19, 2026 · PreprintMicrobiology