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This strategy, known as antigenic drift, works well as a short-term survival tactic for the virus: the speed with which slight variations develop keeps populations susceptible to infection.
Why should factory farming of swine and poultry create a pandemic ... by Cox, Stan / Synthesis/Regeneration
Frequent antigenic change, known as antigenic drift, is caused by mutations during reproduction of the virus, and results in new variants of influenza.
Vaccine, preparation can help change course of flu pandemic by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Flahault, (2007) Influenza vaccine: The challenge of antigenic drift, Vaccine, 25, 6852-6862.
Determination of inter- and intra-subtype/species variations in ... by Yan, Shaomin; Wu, Guang / Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering (JBiSE)
 
 
 
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