Article
Evolutionary pattern of the hemagglutinin gene of influenza B viruses isolated in Japan: cocirculating lineages in the same epidemic season.
Journal of virology - 1 Jun 1990
Kanegae Y, Sugita S, Endo A, Ishida M, Senya S, Osako K, Nerome K, Oya A
Abstract excerpt
The unexpectedly low efficacy of influenza vaccine during school outbreaks of influenza B virus in the spring of 1987 in Japan was probably attributable to a poor antibody response of vaccinees to the epidemic viruses. An antigenic analysis of the causative B viruses isolated in 1987 and 1988 sho...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Antibodies, Viral
- Base Sequence
- Biological Evolution
- Genes, Viral
- Hemagglutinins, Viral
- Humans
- Influenza B virus
- Influenza, Human
- Japan
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Oligonucleotide Probes
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid