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Antigenic shift


Antigenic shift is contrasted with antigenic drift, which is the natural mutation over time of known strains of influenza (or other things, in a more general sense) to evade the immune system.
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Antigenic shift is the process by which two different strains of influenza combine to form a new subtype having a mixture of the surface antigens of the two original strains.
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Antigenic Shift
The influenza virus can mutate through antigenic shift, causing new outbreaks to occur in human populations.
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No antigenic shifts occurred between 1957 ("Asian") and 1968 ("Hong Kong"). So what accounts for the epidemics of 1962 and 1964?
Missense mutations in the hemagglutinin (H) gene.
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