该研究提出的对全球流感毒株的分型和分类的方法尚属首次，对于未来研究禽流感的进化具有重要的参考价值。
该研究结果发表在Journal of Infectious Diseases上: Bin Wu, Chengmin Wang, Guoying Dong, Yunhai Guo, Dale Louis Nolte, Thomas Jude Deliberto, Jianguo Xu,Mingxing Duan, Hongxuan He.New evidence suggests southern China as a common source of multiple clusters of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus. The Journal of Infectious diseases, 2010，202:452–458.（IF=5.865）。