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A Human CD4+ T Cell Epitope in the Influenza Hemagglutinin Is Cross-Reactive to Influenza A Virus Subtypes and to Influenza B Virus
... the influenza virus family is a major antigen for protective ...the influenza virus HA that lies in the fusion peptide of the ...of influenza A virus and the HA protein of influenza B ...with ...
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A Seven-Segmented Influenza A Virus Expressing the Influenza C Virus Glycoprotein HEF
... Generation of HEF or HEF-Ecto viruses carrying a GFP RNA segment. The selective packaging model argues that eight segments are required for efficient packaging of influenza A virus genomes (9, 10, 18, 19, 21, 22, ...
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Evaluation of Alere i Influenza A&B for Rapid Detection of Influenza Viruses A and B
... of influenza is important for infection control, as well as for patient ...i Influenza A&B is an isothermal nucleic acid amplification-based integrated system for detection and differentiation of ...
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Molecular Signature of Influenza A
... strand influenza viral RNAs must be copied into complementary (+) strands, so that they can serve as templates for ...Both influenza A and B viruses have 8 RNA segments, while the influenza C viruses ...
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Evaluation of the Cepheid Xpert Flu Assay for Rapid Identification and Differentiation of Influenza A, Influenza A 2009 H1N1, and Influenza B Viruses
... for influenza A virus by culture or the ProFlu ⫹ assay were sequenced to identify the 2009 H1N1 ...All influenza B virus discrepant samples were also se- ...
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Characterization and evaluation of monoclonal antibodies developed for typing influenza A and influenza B viruses
... Pools containing at least two antibodies directed at different viral proteins NP and M for influenza A and NP and HA for influenza B showed slightly greater sensitivity for detecting the[r] ...
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Clinical outcomes of seasonal influenza and pandemic influenza A (H1N1) in pediatric inpatients
... All respiratory virus samples were collected via naso- pharyngeal aspirate (NPA) by trained nursing staff. Respiratory virus testing from May-December 2009 con- sisted of direct fluorescent antibody (DFA) assay (D 3 , ...
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An influenza A (H1N1) virus, closely related to swine influenza virus, responsible for a fatal case of human influenza.
... The results of our comparison between the NP genes of A/MD and those in the avian or human lineages indicate that the NP of A/MD shares the strongest sequence identity, i.e., 99.4% at th[r] ...
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Influenza C virus hemagglutinin: comparison with influenza A and B virus hemagglutinins.
... Although it is difficult to detect nucleotide and amino acid sequence homologies between the influenza C/Cal/78 virus HA and the A and B virus HAs, there is significant structural homolo[r] ...
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Influenza: A Shot or Not?
... The Com- mittee on Infectious Diseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics in their new recommenda- tions have recognized and emphasized the impact of influenza in both high-risk and n[r] ...
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Understanding the influenza vaccination
... Influenza A viruses may undergo a process called antigenic shift, which has resulted in new subtypes or strains that cause epidemics and pandemics. Major genetic changes occur in the haemagglutinin-neuraminidase ...
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Prevention of Influenza: Recommendations for Influenza Immunization of Children, 2006–2007
... of influenza vaccine used to immunize both children and adults—trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV) and live-attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV)—as well as the licensed age group of each ...
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Detecting influenza and emerging avian influenza virus by influenza and pneumonia surveillance systems in a large city in China, 2005 to 2016
... avian influenza cases is dependent on the ...ing influenza virus and emerging avian influenza ...seasonal influenza each year, the pandemic of influenza A (H1N1) in 2009, and the ...
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New treatments for influenza
... against influenza [94]. Using a lethal dose of the two different influenza A strains (A/PR/8/34 H1N1 and A/Udorn/307/ 72 H3N2), significantly higher survival and decreased weight loss was observed in ...
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Galectin-1 Binds to Influenza Virus and Ameliorates Influenza Virus Pathogenesis
... analyses. Influenza vi- rus-infected mice that had received different treatments were killed at day 6 postinfection ...all influenza A virus strains (1:200; ...
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Rapid preparation of mutated influenza hemagglutinins for influenza virus pandemic prevention
... The primers used in this study are listed in Additional file 1: Table S1. The human HA gene was derived from the Influenza A H1N1 (A/New Caledonia/20/99) HA ORF mammalian expression plasmid (Sino Biological, ...
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The evolution of influenza viruses
... of influenza A virus is composed of eight single RNA strands that code for eleven proteins, including HA, NA, nucleoprotein (NP), M1, M2, NS1, NEP (nuclear export protein, NS2), PA, PB1 (polymerase basic1), ...
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Post-influenza aspergillosis, do not underestimate influenza B
... year, influenza A (IA) and B (IB) viruses co-circulate from late fall through to early spring, causing respiratory tract infections among persons of every age group with highest rates of illness in ...
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Rheumatoid arthritis and the incidence of influenza and influenza related complications: a retrospective cohort study
... This was a retrospective cohort study in patients included in the Thomson Reuters Medstat MarketScan Database from 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2007 [12]. Note that data collection preceded the appearance of the 2009 ...
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Applied Clinical Algorithm of Influenza: Management of Influenza in Young People
... in influenza vac- cines is necessary in order for the vaccines to be effec- tive because the constant evolving nature of influenza viruses, including those circulating and infecting hu- mans; so based on ...
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