Would you volunteer to be quarantined and infected with influenza virus?

Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-2

  Oxford, John S ^a   Gelder, Colin ^b   Lambkin, Robert ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LLANDOUGH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; HEMAGGLUTININ; INFLUENZA VACCINE; INTERFERON; SIALIDASE INHIBITOR; VIRUS VACCINE; VIRUS VECTOR;

ALPHA VIRUS; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CELL CULTURE; COMMON COLD; CORONAVIRUS; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; VIRUS ISOLATION; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 14044262918     PISSN: 14787210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14787210.3.1.1     Document Type: Editorial

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