Fujita Health University

Osaka University

Nobuko Ohshima

Yoshikazu Kurosawa

Yoshinobu Okuno

Yoshitaka Iba

Provided is a method of providing an effective means as a countermeasure for handling a pandemic of an influenza virus. The resistance to a type A influenza virus is determined using, as an indicator, the presence or otherwise of antibodies using the VH1-69 gene in a biological sample originating from a subject.

Method of determining resistance to influenza virus

Provided is an anti-influenza virus antibody that exhibits neutralizing activity beyond the barrier of the two groups of influenza viruses categorized according to the conservativeness of hemagglutinin amino acids, a method of producing the same, and a test method for determining whether the subject carries the neutralizing antibody.

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Aichi, Japan

Nobuko Ohshima