Antigenic variants of influenza B viruses isolated in Japan during the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 influenza seasons.

Sari Kato-MiyashitaYuko Sakai-TagawaMakoto YamashitaKiyoko Iwatsuki-HorimotoMutsumi ItoAkifumi TokitaHaruhisa HagiwaraNaomi IzumidaTamon NishinoNoriyuki WadaMichiko Koga Eisuke AdachiDaisuke JubishiHiroshi Yotsuyanagi Yoshihiro Kawaoka Masaki Imai

Published in: Influenza and other respiratory viruses (2020)

These results highlight the need for continued monitoring for the prevalence of the antigenic variant with the three-amino-acid deletion and the variant with reduced NA inhibitor susceptibility.

Keyphrases

amino acid
risk factors
copy number
dna methylation
genome wide