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Influenza
Recent studies by A.P.C. Lim and co-authors add new data to influenza findings
January 20th, 2009
According to a study from Singapore, Singapore, "Identification of neutralizing antibodies with specificity away from the traditional mutation prone antigenic regions, against the conserved regions of hemagglutinin from H5N1 influenza virus has the potential to provide a therapeutic option which can be developed ahead of time in preparation for a possible pandemic due to H5N1 viruses. In this study, we used a combination of panning strategies against the hemagglutinin (HA) of several antigenic distinct H5N1 isolates to bias selection of Fab-phage from a naive human library away from the antigenic regions of HA, toward the more conserved portions of the protein." "All of...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-01-20)
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