Issue 7, 2007
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Analyst

Fingerprinting a killer: surveillance of the influenza virus by mass spectrometry

Kevin M. Downard*a  and  Bethny Morrisseya  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Molecular & Microbial Biosciences G-08, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
E-mail: kdownard@usyd.edu.au
Tel: +61 (0)2 9351 4140

Abstract

Influenza is a deadly virus that continues to kill and inflict illness and suffering the world over. Despite a global surveillance strategy, an annual response to vaccine preparation and the development of new anti-viral drugs to treat the virus ahead of, or after, infection, no cure exists. Future pandemics are a very real threat and countries have mobilised efforts to stockpile treatments and prepare for outbreaks. A new surveillance approach in which the structure and antigenicity of the virus can be rapidly screened by mass spectrometry is expected to have a greater role in the characterisation of emerging influenza strains, even at the site of an outbreak.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B701835E
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First published
01 May 2007

Analyst, 2007,132, 611-614

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