Genomic approach to seasonal and pandemic influenza viruses

• Main Author: Nobuyuki, Fujita
• Format: Working Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Nhà xuất bản Nông Nghiệp 2011
• Subjects: Vi rút cúm; Bệnh truyền nhiễm
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/123456789/9741
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Influenza is one of the most serious infectious diseases, infecti ng roughly 10% of the population and causing hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide every year. To combat this disease, World Health Organization (WHO) established global surveillance network in which National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) in Japan plays a major part as one of the four international WHO collaborating centers. NITE has been participating in the surveillance, in collaboration with NIID and prefectural and municipal public health institutes, by massively sequencing some of the genes, those related to viral antigenicity and drug resistance, of seasonal influenza viruses clinically isolated in Japan and other Asian countries. The data are shared globally and used for the selection of vaccine strains and the monitoring of drug-resistant viruses.