The 1918 'Spanish' flu: Pearls from swine?

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 384-385

  Shortridge, Kennedy F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIC; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INFLUENZA; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENES, VIRAL; HEMAGGLUTININ GLYCOPROTEINS, INFLUENZA VIRUS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; SWINE;

INFLUENZA A VIRUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0032937645     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/7383     Document Type: Short Survey

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