Fingerprinting a killer: surveillance of the influenza virus by mass spectrometry |
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Authors: | Downard Kevin M Morrissey Bethny |
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Affiliation: | School of Molecular & Microbial Biosciences G-08, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. kdownard@usyd.edu.au |
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Abstract: | Influenza is a deadly virus that continues to kill and inflict illness and suffering the world over. Despite a global surveillance strategy, an annual response to vaccine preparation and the development of new anti-viral drugs to treat the virus ahead of, or after, infection, no cure exists. Future pandemics are a very real threat and countries have mobilised efforts to stockpile treatments and prepare for outbreaks. A new surveillance approach in which the structure and antigenicity of the virus can be rapidly screened by mass spectrometry is expected to have a greater role in the characterisation of emerging influenza strains, even at the site of an outbreak. |
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