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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Zhu H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5841213 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Emerging microbes & infections 20180306 1
The 2017 Hong Kong influenza A(H3N2) summer season was unexpectedly severe. However, antigenic characterization of the 2017 circulating A(H3N2) viruses using ferret antisera did not show significant antigenic drift. We analyzed the hemagglutinin amino acid sequences of A(H3N2) virus circulating in Hong Kong in 2017, and found that viruses with hemagglutinin N121K substitution, which was rare before 2017, emerged rapidly and dominated in 2017 (52.4% of A[H3N2] virus in 2017 contains N121K substit ...[more]