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Haemagglutinin mutations and glycosylation changes shaped the 2012/13 influenza A(H3N2) epidemic, Houston, Texas.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 7 May 2015
Stucker K M, Schobel S A, Olsen R J, Hodges H L, Lin X, Halpin R A, Fedorova N, Stockwell T B, Tovchigrechko A, Das S R, Wentworth D E, Musser J M
Abstract excerpt
While the early start and higher intensity of the 2012/13 influenza A virus (IAV) epidemic was not unprecedented, it was the first IAV epidemic season since the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic where the H3N2 subtype predominated. We directly sequenced the genomes of 154 H3N2 clinical specimens collected throughout the epidemic to better understand the evolution of H3N2 strains and to inform the H3N2 vaccine...
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