More about hypervirulent avian influenza: Is the world now better prepared?

Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 78-121

  Christophersen, Olav Albert ^a   Haug, Anna ^b  

^a Norwegian University of Life Science ^*  (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; ANDROSTENEDIOL; ANDROSTENETRIOL; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; AVIAN INFLUENZA VACCINE; BETA 1,3 GLUCAN; BETA GLUCAN; DRUG METABOLITE; ETOPOSIDE; GLUCOCORTICOID; INTERLEUKIN 6 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; LENTINAN; MELATONIN; OSELTAMIVIR; PRASTERONE; RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; TAURINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASTHMA; AVIAN INFLUENZA; CONJUNCTIVITIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; ISCHEMIA; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PANDEMIC; PATHOGENESIS; POULTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; REPERFUSION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPANISH INFLUENZA; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINATION; VACCINE PRODUCTION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 34250650782     PISSN: 0891060X     EISSN: 16512235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08910600701343286     Document Type: Review

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