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Mapping the specificity of H3N2 strain-specific and cross-reactive human neutralizing antibodies elicited by the 2025-2026 influenza vaccine

2026-02-22 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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An H3N2 variant, named subclade K, continues to circulate widely during the 2025-2026 influenza season. This virus possesses a hemagglutinin (HA) protein that has eleven substitutions relative to the HA of the Northern Hemisphere 2025-2026 H3N2 vaccine strain. Many of these substitutions are in epitopes in well-characterized HA antigenic sites. Despite this, interim vaccine effectiveness studies indicate that the 2025-2026 influenza vaccine provides moderate protection against H3N2 subclade K in...

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