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The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 92, 441-462, Copyright, 1950, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York

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PERSISTENT ANTIGENIC VARIATION OF INFLUENZA A VIRUSES AFTER INCOMPLETE NEUTRALIZATION IN OVO WITH HETEROLOGOUS IMMUNE SERUM

Italo Archetti M.D.1 and Frank L. Horsfall Jr. M.D.1

1 From the Hospital of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research

Antigenic variants of influenza A virus strains emerge on serial passage in ovo in the presence of immune serum against different but related strains. An old laboratory strain (PR8) which had been through hundreds of animal passages was as readily modified by this procedure as recently recovered strains. Such variants apparently can be obtained at will and show antigenic patterns which are reproducible and appear to be predictable in terms of the immune serum used for their selection. Variant strains retain their new antigenic patterns on serial passage in ovo in the absence of immune serum. Limited serial passage in ovo of strains in the absence of immune serum did not result in the emergence of antigenic variants. Similarly, serial passages of strains in ovo in the presence of immune serum against widely different strains, which failed to show significant cross-neutralization, did not lead to the appearance of antigenic variants.

Submitted on July 20, 1950


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