H3N2 influenza infection elicits more cross-reactive and less clonally expanded anti-hemagglutinin antibodies than influenza vaccination.

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Published in PLoS One on October 19, 2011

Authors

M Anthony Moody1, Ruijun Zhang, Emmanuel B Walter, Christopher W Woods, Geoffrey S Ginsburg, Micah T McClain, Thomas N Denny, Xi Chen, Supriya Munshaw, Dawn J Marshall, John F Whitesides, Mark S Drinker, Joshua D Amos, Thaddeus C Gurley, Joshua A Eudailey, Andrew Foulger, Katherine R DeRosa, Robert Parks, R Ryan Meyerhoff, Jae-Sung Yu, Daniel M Kozink, Brice E Barefoot, Elizabeth A Ramsburg, Surender Khurana, Hana Golding, Nathan A Vandergrift, S Munir Alam, Georgia D Tomaras, Thomas B Kepler, Garnett Kelsoe, Hua-Xin Liao, Barton F Haynes

Author Affiliations

1: Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America. moody007@mc.duke.edu

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