Hemagglutinin gene clade 3C.2a influenza A(H3N2) viruses, Alachua County, Florida, USA, 2014–15

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 121-123

  Lednicky, John A ^a   Iovine, Nicole M ^a   Brew, Joe ^a,b   Loeb, Julia C ^a   Sugimoto, Jonathan D ^c   Rand, Kenneth H ^a   Morris, J Glenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ; HEMAGGLUTININ; INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLADISTICS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLUENZA A (H3N2); INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H3N2); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; UNITED STATES; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS STRAIN; FLORIDA; GENETICS; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TEST; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLUENZA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FLORIDA; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TESTS; HEMAGGLUTININS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H3N2 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN;

EID: 84950269584     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2201.151019     Document Type: Article

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