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New observations on antigenic diversification of RNA viruses. Antigenic variation is not dependent on immune selection
1 Oct 1993
Abstract excerpt
Recent results have revealed novel features in the process of antigenic diversification of FMDV. (i) Antigenic variation is not necessarily the result of immune selection. (ii) Single, critical amino acid replacements may either have a minor effect on antigenic specificity or cause a drastic antigenic change affecting many epitopes on an antigenic site. (iii) The effect of such a critical replacement may be...
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