Predicting 'airborne' influenza viruses: (Trans-) mission impossible?

Current Opinion in Virology

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 635-642

  Sorrell, E M ^a   Schrauwen, E J A ^a   Linster, M ^a   De Graaf, M ^b   Herfst, S ^a   Fouchier, R A M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N2; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N2; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H7N2; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H7N7; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H9N2; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TITRATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 82955221856     PISSN: 18796257     EISSN: 18796265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2011.07.003     Document Type: Review

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