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Molecular Characteristics of Influenza Virus Type B Lineages Circulating in Poland.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2016
Bednarska K, Hallmann-Szelińska E, Kondratiuk K, Rabczenko D, Brydak L B
Abstract excerpt
From the time of the Hong Kong pandemic of 1968-1969, vaccines against influenza are trivalent, containing two subtypes of influenza type A: A/H1N1/ and A/H3N2/, and influenza type B. In 1980, circulation of the new Yamagata and Victoria lineages of influenza B virus was noted. Since both lineages have continued to circulate, the second lineage of influenza B was included into the trivalent vaccine as of the...
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