The origins of pandemic influenza - Lessons from the 1918 virus

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 353, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 2209-2211

  Belshe, Robert B ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; OSELTAMIVIR; RIMANTADINE; ZANAMIVIR;

FOWL; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SWINE; TRANSACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REASSORTANT VIRUSES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 28144448001     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp058281     Document Type: Short Survey

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