MICI 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Virulence-Related Outer Membrane Protein Family, Influenza A Virus Subtype H3N2, Influenza A Virus

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Microbiology & Immunology
• Course: MICI 2100
• Professor: Thomas N.

Document Summary

Mici 2100 lecture 13 october 18, 2018 virus strucutre: capsids, envelopes, and genomes. Influenza virus is a membrane bound virus and has surface proteins called hemagglutinin and the np. Within the virus membrane, inside the genome, it is a segmented rna genome, comprised of 8 negative strand single stranded rna in this sample. 4 circulating strains each year: 2 strains for flu a (h1n1 and h3n2, 2 strains for flu b (b-victoria and b-yamagata) There are 4 circulating influenza strains each year in the human population. The virus case numbers of individuals being infected as well as the individual portions of strains of flu change each year. There are two strains of flu a (h1n1, h3n2) and two strains of flu b (b-victoria and b-yamagata). This are the 4 components in the influenza vaccines. There is a slight rise of influenza cases in canada over the last week. There are 73 flu cases over last week in canada.