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Influenza
Data on influenza reported by P. Somvanshi and co-researchers
June 18th, 2008
According to a study from Lucknow, India, "The avian influenza is an important infectious disease of birds. The genome of influenza A virus was segmented, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA molecules, which encodes many proteins." "The significant surface proteins are hemagglutinin and neuraminidase for the pathogenicity of birds to humans. The prediction of epitopes in protein provides a suitable primary immunodiagnostic antigen for the detection of the influenza A virus H5N1. It was further used in the development and approval of epitopes, which were used as antigens, and the peptides can be used for vaccines in the potential control of an emerging pandemic of this...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-06-18)
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