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Effect of seasonal vaccination on the selection of influenza A/H3N2 epidemic variants.
Vaccine - 5 Jan 2017
Chong Yong, Ikematsu Hideyuki
Abstract excerpt
The effect of vaccination on the dynamics of influenza virus variants remains largely unknown in humans, unlike in poultry. In this study, we compared influenza hemagglutinin (HA) gene sequences isolated from vaccinated and unvaccinated populations with the yearly vaccine strains. In total, 181 influenza A/H3N2 virus samples isolated from 82 vaccinated and 99 unvaccinated patients (2011-15, four Japanese...
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