Avian influenza: A human pandemic threat?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 807-808

  Rezza, Giovanni ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; HEMAGGLUTININ; INACTIVATED VACCINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SIALIDASE; SIALIDASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS SURFACE PROTEIN;

AVIFAUNA; DISEASE PREVALENCE; INFLUENZA;

ADAPTATION; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGENICITY; ASIA; ASIAN; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS H5N1; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS H7N7; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; CASE FATALITY RATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTACT EXAMINATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CARRIER; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; ERADICATION THERAPY; FATALITY; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC DRIFT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INTERSPECIES PASSAGE; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; POULTRY; POULTRY FARMING; RARE DISEASE; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; SPECIES BARRIER; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THAILAND; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIET NAM; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS SHEDDING; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TYPING;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ZOONOSES;

EID: 4644286054     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2004.022079     Document Type: Editorial

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