Estimation of Cross-Immunity Between Drifted Strains of Influenza A/H3N2.

Estimation of Cross-Immunity Between Drifted Strains of Influenza A/H3N2. Bull Math Biol. 2018 Jan 25;: Authors: Asaduzzaman SM, Ma J, van den Driessche P Abstract To determine the cross-immunity between influenza strains, we design a novel statistical method, which uses a theoretical model and clinical data on attack rates and vaccine efficacy among school children for two seasons after the 1968 A/H3N2 influenza pandemic. This model incorporates the distribution of susceptibility and the dependence of cross-immunity on the antigenic distance of drifted strains. We find that the cross-immunity between an influenza strain and the mutant that causes the next epidemic is 88%. Our method also gives estimates of the vaccine protection against the vaccinating strain, and the basic reproduction number of the 1968 pandemic influenza. PMID: 29372495 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Bulletin of Mathematical Biology - Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Tags: Bull Math Biol Source Type: research