New Details On How The Immune System Recognizes Influenza

... Drawing upon a massive database established with funds from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, one of the National Institutes of Health, scientists have completed the most comprehensive analysis to date of published influenza A virus epitopes -- the critical sites on the virus that are recognized by the immune system. The findings, reported by researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, are being published online this week by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ...