Development of an epitope conservancy analysis tool to facilitate the design of epitope-based diagnostics and vaccines

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BACKGROUND: In an epitope-based vaccine setting, the use of conserved epitopes would be expected to provide broader protection across multiple strains, or even species, than epitopes derived from highly variable genome regions. Conversely, in a diagnostic and disease monitoring setting, epitopes that are specific to a given pathogen strain, for example, can be used to monitor responses to that particular...

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