Article
Traveling waves in a model of influenza A drift.
Journal of theoretical biology - 21 Jun 2003
Lin Juan, Andreasen Viggo, Casagrandi Renato, Levin Simon A
Abstract excerpt
Between major pandemics, the influenza A virus changes its antigenic properties by accumulating point mutations (drift) mainly in the RNA genes that code for the surface proteins hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA). The successful strain (variant) that will cause the next epidemic is selected from a reduced number of progenies that possess relatively high transmissibility and the ability to escape from the...
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