Reappearance and Global Spread of Variants of Influenza B/Victoria/2/87 Lineage Viruses in the 2000–2001 and 2001–2002 Seasons

2002/11/01 by Michael W. Shaw, Xiyan Xu, Yàn Li +9 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Medicine · #Influenza Virus Research Studies #Respiratory viral infections research #Virology and Viral Diseases

paper · pdf · doi:10.1006/viro.2002.1719

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• Cocirculation of two distinct evolutionary lineages of influenza type B virus since 1983

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