The Roles of Cellular Receptor Binding Avidity and Other Viral Phenotypes in the Antigenic Drift of Influenza

<p>Despite high vaccination rates and effective adaptive immune responses from the part of infected individuals, influenza A viruses cause significant morbidity and mortality annually. This is due to influenza's rapid antigenic evolution, whereby continual mutations occurring in epitope r...

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Main Author: Yuan, Hsiang-Yu
Other Authors: Koelle, Katia
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10161/7211