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The Representativeness of Regional Influenza Virus Genomic Surveillance for National Trends in the United States

2026-03-02 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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Genomic surveillance of influenza viruses informs vaccine strain selection and evolutionary forecasting. Sequencing efforts vary widely across U.S. states, which raises concerns about spatial sampling bias. We evaluated how well 10,958 influenza virus genomes sampled by our group in Michigan captured the genetic diversity in 34,743 genomes circulating nationally from the 2021/22 through 2024/25 seasons. We defined seasonal hemagglutinin haplotypes and tracked their detection across states. A sma...

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