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Reinfection with influenza B virus in children: analysis of the reinfection influenza B viruses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

S. Nakajima ,
F. Nishikawa ,
K. Nakamura ,
H. Nakao  and
K. Nakajima
S. Nakajima
Affiliation:
The Institute of Public Health, 4–6–1, Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108, Japan
F. Nishikawa
Affiliation:
Saitama Medical School, Saitama 350–4, Japan
K. Nakamura
Affiliation:
Nagano Research Institute for Public Health and Pollution, Nagano 308, Japan
H. Nakao
Affiliation:
Medical School, Nagoya City University, Aichi 467, Japan
K. Nakajima
Affiliation:
Medical School, Nagoya City University, Aichi 467, Japan
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Influenza B virus reinfection in Japanese children was studied epidemi-ologically during 1979–91 and virologically during 1985–91. During this investigation, there were four epidemics caused by influenza B viruses, each of which accompanied antigenic drift. Between the epidemics in 1987/88 and 1989/90, the viruses changed drastically, both genetically and antigenically. The minimum rate of reinfection with influenza B virus during the whole period was 3–25% depending on the influenza seasons. The antigens of primary and reinfection strains of influenza B virus isolated from 18 children during 1985–90, which covered three epidemic periods, were studied by haemagglutination inhibition tests. The results showed that the viruses isolated in the 1984/85 and 1987/88 influenza seasons, which belonged to the same lineage, were antigenically close, and reinfection occurred with these viruses. The results of amino-acid analysis of the HA1 polypeptide of these viruses corresponded with those of antigenic analysis. There were no specific amino-acid changes shared by the primary infection and reinfection influenza B viruses; the patients were infected with the viruses epidemic at that time.

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Research Article
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Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 113 , Issue 1 , August 1994 , pp. 103 - 112
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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