The molecular epidemiology of influenza viruses: A lesson from a highly epidemic season

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 355-360

  D'Agaro, P ^a   Rossi, T ^a   Burgnich, P ^a   Dal Molin, G ^a   Coppola, N ^b   Rocco, G ^b   Campello, Cesare ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IRCCS BURLO GAROFOLO   (Italy)

^b ACP Friuli Venezia Giulia   (Italy)

^c Department of Public Medicine Sciences ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DRIFT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; INFECTION RATE; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N2; ITALY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS HEMAGGLUTINATION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TESTS; HEMAGGLUTININ GLYCOPROTEINS, INFLUENZA VIRUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H3N2 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 40449084078     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2007.050005     Document Type: Article

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