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Influenza Vaccines
Research in the area of influenza vaccines reported from Medical College Hospital, Osaka Medical College
May 6th, 2008
A new study, 'Detection of antigenic variants of the influenza B virus by melting curve analysis with LCGreen,' is now available. "Automated, high-throughput detection methods for single-nucleotide polymorphisms have been applied to the routine genotyping of genetic polymorphisms influencing drug metabolism. Melting curve analysis with LCGreen was introduced recently as one such technique which can be performed rapidly and easily," investigators in Takatsuki, Japan report. "This technique was used to detect antigenic variants of the influenza B virus. The antigenic variants and vaccine-type strains of the influenza B virus are isolated from clinical specimens of one...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-05-06)
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