The evolution of seasonal influenza viruses

Nature Reviews Microbiology 16, 47 (2018). doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.118 Authors: Velislava N. Petrova & Colin A. Russell Despite decades of surveillance and pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions, seasonal influenza viruses continue to cause epidemics around the world each year. The key process underlying these recurrent epidemics is the evolution of the viruses to escape the immunity that is induced by prior infection or
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