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Neutralizing epitopes of RSV and palivizumab resistance in Japan.
Fukushima journal of medical science - 19 Dec 2017
Hashimoto Koichi, Hosoya Mitsuaki
Abstract excerpt
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is one of the most important viral pathogen related to acute lower respiratory infection in young children. The virus surface envelope contains the G, F, and SH proteins as spike proteins. The F protein is considered to be a major antigenic target for the neutralizing (NT) epitope as only the F protein is essential for cell infection among the three viral envelope proteins, and...
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