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Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus Subtype H5N1 Escaping Neutralization: More than HA Variation
17 Nov 2011
Abstract excerpt
Influenza A viruses are one of the major threats in modern health care. Novel viruses arise due to antigenic drift and antigenic shift, leading to escape from the immune system and resulting in a serious problem for disease control. In order to investigate the escape process and to enable predictions of escape, we serially passaged influenza A H5N1 virus in vitro 100 times under immune pressure. The generated...
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