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  • adverb In the manner of an antigen

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Examples

  • The untreated infection is characterized by successive waves of parasites, each comprising largely one antigenically distinct surface phenotype.

    Behe Responds 2007

  • A higher VE against H3N2 viruses than against influenza B viruses was likely because the circulating H3N2 strains and H3N2 strain in the vaccine were closely related while the circulating B viruses were antigenically and genetically much different from the influenza B virus in the vaccine and there was little to no cross-reactivity.

    Linda Bergthold: Bill Maher is wrong about the swine flu 2009

  • "Data suggests that the 2009 H1N1 virus remains antigenically stable," the report said.

    U.S. Sees Uptick of H1N1 Flu Cases, CDC Says 2009

  • It can be produced, moreover, by adult lymphoid cells which, though antigenically foreign to their hosts, are for simple genetic reasons incapable of attacking them.

    Peter Medawar - Nobel Lecture 1964

  • Evidence was obtained that the cytomegaloviruses constituted a closely related but antigenically heterogeneous group of agents.

    Thomas H. Weller - Biography 1964

  • This phenomenon could be partially explained by higher population susceptibility to pH1N1 than non-pH1N1 virus to which the population might have acquired partial immunity in previous years via prior natural exposure with antigenically-related strains and annual immunization campaigns of a fraction of the high-risk population, with live attenuated vaccines

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Victor Alberto Laguna-Torres et al. 2010

  • The swine-origin H1N1 that emerged last year is very different antigenically from the same

    Fore, right! 2010

  • Northern Hemisphere influenza A (H3N2) vaccine component, and were antigenically related to A/Perth/16/2009, the WHO-recommended influenza A (H3N2) component of the 2010 Southern Hemisphere and 2010 -- 11 Northern Hemisphere vaccine formulations.

    foodconsumer.org 2010

  • However, based on hemagglutinin gene sequencing data from four viruses isolated from July specimens, these viruses are expected to be antigenically similar to A/Perth/16/2009-like H3N2 viruses.

    Infection Control Today News Only Feed 2010

  • Currently, transplantation results in rejection because the donor organ is antigenically distinct to yourself - it's recognised as foreign.

    reddit.com: what's new online! 2010

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