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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Main Authors: Zinder, D, Bedford, T, Gupta, S, Pascual, M
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013

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