Barriers to antigenic escape by pathogens: trade-off between reproductive rate and antigenic mutability
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>A single measles vaccination provides lifelong protection. No antigenic variants that escape immunity have been observed. By contrast, influenza continually evolves new antigenic variants, and the vaccine has to be updated frequently...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2007-11-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/7/229 |