Van said the study had showed an antigenic shift involving major antigenic changes of the influenza surface proteins, the HA and NA molecules.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this recombination, i.e. the swapping of whole genes? Isn't this the more feared scenario as opposed to insertions, deletions, single nucleotide polymorphisms, etc.?
13 posted on 11/13/2005 2:06:23 PM PST by neverdem
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