Editorial: Did the 2009 pandemic influenza virus originate in humans?

Future Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 989-991

  Weingartl, Hana M ^a  

^a CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA A (H2N2); INFLUENZA A (H3N2); INFLUENZA A (H5N1); INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; INFLUENZA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PATHOGENICITY; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ZOONOSES;

EID: 77954746414     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.10.62     Document Type: Editorial

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