Variation by lineage in serum antibody responses to influenza B virus infections

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Lau, YC; Perera, RAPM; Fang, VJ; Luk, LH; Chu, DKW; Wu, P; Barr, IG; Peiris, JSM; Cowling, BJDate
2020-11-09Source Title
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Barr, IanAffiliation
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Lau, Y. C., Perera, R. A. P. M., Fang, V. J., Luk, L. H., Chu, D. K. W., Wu, P., Barr, I. G., Peiris, J. S. M. & Cowling, B. J. (2020). Variation by lineage in serum antibody responses to influenza B virus infections. PLOS ONE, 15 (11), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241693.Access Status
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7652285Abstract
Two lineages of influenza B virus currently co-circulate and have distinct antigenicity, termed Victoria and Yamagata after the B/Victoria/2/87 and B/Yamagata/16/88 strains, respectively. We analyzed antibody titer dynamics following PCR-confirmed influenza B virus infection in a longitudinal community-based cohort study conducted in Hong Kong from 2009-2014 to assess patterns in changes in antibody titers to B/Victoria and B/Yamagata viruses following infections with each lineage. Among 62 PCR-confirmed cases, almost half had undetectable hemagglutination inhibition (HAI) antibody titers to the lineage of infection both pre-infection and post-infection. Among those infected with influenza B/Victoria who showed an HAI titer response after infection, we found strong rises to the lineage of infection, positive but smaller cross-lineage HAI titer boosts, a small dependence of HAI titer boosts on pre-infection titers, and a shorter half-life of HAI titers in adults. Our study is limited by the low HAI sensitivity for non-ether-treated IBV antigen and the incapacity of performing other assays with higher sensitivity, as well as the mismatch between the B/Yamagata lineage circulating strain and the assay strain in one of the study seasons.
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