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Influenza
New influenza study findings recently were published by N.M. Bouvier and co-researchers
December 10th, 2008
"The influenza viruses are characterized by segmented, negative-strand RNA genomes requiring an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of viral origin for replication," scientists in the United States report. "The particular structure of the influenza virus genome and function of its viral proteins enable antigenic drift and antigenic shift," wrote N.M. Bouvier and colleagues. The researchers concluded: "These processes result in Viruses able to evade the long-term adaptive immune responses in many hosts." Bouvier and colleagues published their study in Vaccine (The biology of influenza viruses. Vaccine, 2008;26(Suppl....
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-12-10)
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