antigenic
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Specifically, Rajnarayanan said, this mutation’s significant antigenic drift, which is when the genes of a virus change, is “a real concern.”
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2025
The phenomenon in which an initial antibody response to a virus dominates and delimits the response to later strains of the same virus is called "immunological imprinting," or "original antigenic sin."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 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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