Lineage-specific protection and immune imprinting shape the age distributions of influenza B cases

Autor: Marcos C. Vieira, Celeste M. Donato, Philip Arevalo, Guus F. Rimmelzwaan, Timothy Wood, Liza Lopez, Q. Sue Huang, Vijaykrishna Dhanasekaran, Katia Koelle, Sarah Cobey
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24566-y
Popis: The earliest infections with influenza A shape the immune responses to future infections, but it is not known if this phenomenon applies to influenza B. Here, the authors use influenza B case data from New Zealand and find evidence for both lineage-specific and imprinting protection.
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