antigenic
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The second way in which a flu virus changes is called an antigenic shift.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2026
Although there is no specific vaccine against monkeypox, the smallpox vaccine protects eight out of ten people from monkeypox infection due to the antigenic relatedness between the two viruses.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 12, 2024
In terms of figuring out a near-term vaccine formulation, however, the WHO advisory group noted XBB.1.16 has very small genetic and antigenic differences from XBB.1.5.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
"You can see that the antigenic distance from BA.1 to BA.2 is far greater than the ancestral strain to Delta or Beta or Gamma," Topol explained, pointing to an antigenic map of the subvariant.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2022
Since there are so many of them, they can make collective guesses at almost anything antigenic on the surface of the earth, but they must do their work one notion at a time.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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