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Antigenic Shift v. Drift in Avian and Mammalian Sino- Influenza Type A Viruses. By Charles Hauser, St. Edward’s University Mark Maloney, Spelman College.

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1 Antigenic Shift v. Drift in Avian and Mammalian Sino- Influenza Type A Viruses. By Charles Hauser, St. Edward’s University Mark Maloney, Spelman College Young Kim, Northland College Michael P. Saclolo, St. Edward’s University

2 Issues Role of viral hemagglutinin diversity in pathology Creation of new viral strains Antigenic shift versus drift

3 Influenza type A Subtypes designated by Hemagglutinin (H) and Neuraminidase (N) expression

4 Subtypes H and N are on surface H and N are components of flu vaccines Subtypes A (H1N1) and A (H3N2) are common human viruses

5 Vaccines must match subtype and specific strain New flu viruses evade immunity: –Antigenic Shift vs. –Antigenic Drift

6 Antigenic Shift New subtypes match different H and N genes Avian and human viruses mix and match in swine

7 Antigenic Drift Small differences in sequence within a subtype define strains “alleles” or different versions of same H genes

8 BIRD FLU “Bird flu” is unusual Some strains of avian subtypes (H5N1, H9N2, H7N7) can directly infect humans

9 Module Components Chinese Avian and Mammalian Influenza Hemagglutinin Sequences ClustalW Alignment Dendogram Analysis

10 H5N1 H9N2 H3N2 H1N1

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