The pathology of influenza virus infections

Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 499-522

  Taubenberger, Jeffery K ^a   Morens, David M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

1918 Influenza; Alveolitis; Bronchitis; H5N1; Pandemic; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

DISEASE COURSE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL;

EID: 41749124757     PISSN: 15534006     EISSN: 15534014     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.pathmechdis.3.121806.154316     Document Type: Review

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