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Tracking the Antigenic Evolution of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus
22 Jul 2016
Abstract excerpt
Quantifying and predicting the antigenic characteristics of a virus is something of a holy grail for infectious disease research because of its central importance to the emergence of new strains, the severity of outbreaks, and vaccine selection. However, these characteristics are defined by a complex interplay of viral and host factors so that phylogenetic measures of viral similarity are often poorly correlated...
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