The predominant strain is known as Fujian, and it was not included in this year's vaccine.
In the United States, the predominant strain this season is Type A. In Europe, the predominant strain is Type B, which has two subtypes.
But this year's predominant strain -- the Fujian A -- is the same as last year's bug, and Dr. Bresnitz is hoping that most people will have some immunity left over.
If this becomes the predominant strain in the UK we're in big trouble, so we have to be really meticulous in making sure each of these individuals has all their contacts traced and treated".
The predominant strain found during 1980 was CPV-2a, which was substantially replaced by CPV-2b from 1990 to 1995.
Genotyping and epidemiological investigations revealed that MAP 'Bison type' was the predominant strain infecting domestic ruminant population in India.
These analysis revealed that B. infantis Y1 was the predominant strain in the probiotic product and that its growth rate was the highest.
Last year's season was different because H3N2 was the predominant strain of flu, Rohr told HuffPost.
Since its emergence in the spring of 2009, the pandemic H1N1 virus quickly became the predominant strain globally[9].
There was no evidence for low abundance strains existing along the predominant strain based on sequencing of 20 colonies.
The limiting dilution method for PCR was used because it is most likely to pick the predominant strain of the viral population.
