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Vaccine-elicited antibody that neutralizes H5N1 influenza and variants binds the receptor site and polymorphic sites.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 28 Jul 2015
Winarski Katie L, Thornburg Natalie J, Yu Yingchun, Sapparapu Gopal, Crowe James E, Spiller Benjamin W
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Antigenic drift of circulating seasonal influenza viruses necessitates an international vaccine effort to reduce the impact on human health. A critical feature of the seasonal vaccine is that it stimulates an already primed immune system to diversify memory B cells to recognize closely related, but antigenically distinct, influenza glycoproteins (hemagglutinins). Influenza pandemics arise when hemagglutinins to...
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