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The impact of egg adaptation and immune imprinting on influenza vaccine effectiveness
1 Aug 2025
Abstract excerpt
Most influenza vaccines are produced in hens' eggs and may undergo ‘egg adaptation’, whereby mutations within the haemagglutinin protein that result in adaptation to the avian cells undergo positive selection. It is well established that egg adaptation can impact antigenicity and vaccine effectiveness (VE) by causing mismatches between the vaccine virus and circulating viruses. However, few studies have...
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