Genetic immunity and influenza pandemics

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-10

  Rumyantsev, Sergey N ^a  

^a Andent Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Genetics; Immunity; Influenza; Molecular ecology; Public health

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

AVIAN INFLUENZA; CELL CULTURE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VITRO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; INNATE IMMUNITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES VIRUS; SHORT SURVEY; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN;

EID: 33748610580     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2006.00101.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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