Farrow, DC and Burke, DS and Rosenfeld, R
(2015)
Computational characterization of transient strain-transcending immunity against influenza A.
PLoS ONE, 10 (5).
Abstract
The enigmatic observation that the rapidly evolving influenza A (H3N2) virus exhibits, at any given time, a limited standing genetic diversity has been an impetus for much research. One of the first generative computational models to successfully recapitulate this pattern of consistently constrained diversity posits the existence of a strong and short-lived straintranscending immunity. Building on that model, we explored a much broader set of scenarios (parameterizations) of a transient strain-transcending immunity, ran long-term simulations of each such scenario, and assessed its plausibility with respect to a set of known or estimated influenza empirical measures. We evaluated simulated outcomes using a variety of measures, both epidemiological (annual attack rate, epidemic duration, reproductive number, and peak weekly incidence), and evolutionary (pairwise antigenic diversity, fixation rate, most recent common ancestor, and kappa, which quantifies the potential for antigenic evolution). Taking cumulative support from all these measures, we show which parameterizations of strain-transcending immunity are plausible with respect to the set of empirically derived target values. We conclude that strain-transcending immunity which is milder and longer lasting than previously suggested is more congruent with the observed short- and long-term behavior of influenza.
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Farrow, DC | | | | Burke, DS | donburke@pitt.edu | DONBURKE | | Rosenfeld, R | | | |
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Editor | Goldstein, Edward | UNSPECIFIED | UNSPECIFIED | UNSPECIFIED |
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1 May 2015 |
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No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
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PLoS ONE |
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10 |
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5 |
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10.1371/journal.pone.0125047 |
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University of Pittsburgh |
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Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Computational Biology |
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Yes |
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23 Aug 2016 14:05 |
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30 Mar 2021 13:56 |
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http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/28482 |
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