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Predicting clinical severity based on substitutions near epitope A of influenza A/H3N2.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Aug 2015
Lee Hong Kai, Tang Julian Wei-Tze, Loh Tze Ping, Oon Lynette Lin-Ean, Koay Evelyn Siew-Chuan
Abstract excerpt
Epitopes are the main targets for specific antibodies in the host defense systems. Recent studies have shown that amino acid (aa) substitutions located within the influenza A/H3N2 hemagglutinin 1 (HA1) epitopes A-E, particularly in A and B, result in antigenic drift. Viruses with such drift mutations may have resulted in more severe influenza-related illness during influenza epidemics between late 2012 and early...
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