Epidemic dynamics and antigenic evolution in a single season of influenza A

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1592, 2006, Pages 1307-1316

  Boni, Maciej F ^a   Gog, Julia R ^b   Andreasen, Viggo ^c   Feldman, Marcus W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antigenic drift; Herd immunity; Immune escape; Influenza; Population dynamics; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

HEMAGGLUTININ; RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN; EPIDEMIC; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; INFLUENZA; LIVESTOCK; MUTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS;

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; HERD IMMUNITY; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC DRIFT; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POINT MUTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 33746198065     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3466     Document Type: Article

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