The roles of competition and mutation in shaping antigenic and genetic diversity in influenza.
Influenza A (H3N2) offers a well-studied, yet not fully understood, disease in terms of the interactions between pathogen population dynamics, epidemiology and genetics. A major open question is why the virus population is globally dominated by a single and very recently diverged (2-8 years) lineage...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2013
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