Influenza drift and epidemic size: the race between generating and escaping immunity.
Influenza in humans is characterised by strongly annual dynamics and antigenic evolution leading to partial escape from prior host immunity. The variability of new epidemic strains depends on the amount of virus currently circulating. In this paper, the amount of antigenic variation produced each ye...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2004
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