New computational modeling of avian influenza variants' immunoprotein interactions—developed by a research team at the ...

Catani and colleagues provide data on antigenic properties of neuraminidase proteins of pandemic H1N1 and show that antigenic diversity of the neuraminidase from 2009 to 2020 largely falls into two ...

New computational modeling of avian influenza variants’ immunoprotein interactions – developed by a research team at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte – reveals the H5N1 influenza virus is ...

South African poultry industry suffers R1. 8 billion in losses as experts warn of potential human transmission risks from the ...

Not long after the first flu shot was introduced in 1945 by University of Michigan virologist Thomas Francis and his ...

As a WHO-designated center, the CDC’s influenza division has been instrumental in year-round surveillance, enabling early detection of antigenic drift in seasonal influenza viruses and the ...

2). Classical vaccines such as diphtheria and tetanus, for instance, target toxin antigens that have not had antigenic drift during the past century. Other antigens with little or no antigenic ...

Functions of each viral protein are listed in Table 1. Antigenic drift is the process whereby mutations accumulate in viral surface glycoproteins (predominantly hemagglutinin), resulting in ...

But the vaccine is only partially protective and the virus undergoes antigenic drift, ie, slight changes in its outside coat, enough to escape protection for some persons in the population.