Wide Prevalence of Heterosubtypic Broadly Neutralizing Human Anti-Influenza A Antibodies
Author(s) -
Jianhua Sui,
John P. Sheehan,
Wei Hwang,
Laurie A. Bankston,
Sandra Burchett,
Chi Huang,
Robert Liddington,
John H. Beigel,
Wayne A. Marasco
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/cir121
Subject(s) - medicine , influenza vaccine , virology , immunology , antibody , immunity , antibody response , human influenza , neutralizing antibody , vaccination , covid-19 , immune system , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Lack of life-long immunity against influenza viruses represents a major global health care problem with profound medical and economic consequences. A greater understanding of the broad-spectrum "heterosubtypic" neutralizing human antibody (BnAb) response to influenza should bring us closer toward a universal influenza vaccine.
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