J Hyg Epidemiol Microbiol Immunol
Published: December 1985
The authors studied the peculiarities of the course of experimental influenza infection induced by the administration of highly and poorly immunogenic strains of influenza virus to mice. Influenza viruses with varying immunogenic activity were obtained from the vaccine strain A/Victoria/35/72/50 (H3N2) by immunoselection modelling the process of natural selection. The administration of strains with high and poor immunogenicity to mice of the F1 (CBA X C57B1) line led to the development of acute influenza infection accompanied by reproduction of viruses in the tissue of the lungs and other internal organs. The poorly immunogenic strain 5/II-Victoria, unlike the initial virus A/Victoria/35 and its highly immunogenic variant 2/I-Victoria, is able to circulate for a long time in the organism of the infected animal causing development of chronic inflammatory processes and stimulating the formation of neoplasms. Immunogenicity is thus one of the factors determining the character of the course of experimental influenza infection. A conclusion was drawn concerning the epidemiological and aetiological importance of viruses with reduced immunogenicity and their role in the evolution of influenza virus. It is presumed that reduced immunogenicity is one of the adaptation mechanisms of aggression permitting the population of influenza virus to escape control by specific humoral immunity.
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