Editorial commentary: Variant influenza A(H3N2) virus: Looking through a glass, darkly

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1713-1714

  Gray, Gregory C ^a   Cao, Wu Chun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

infectious disease epidemiology; influenza A; swine influenza; zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ENDEMIC DISEASE; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N2; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PIG FARMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

INFECTIOUS DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFLUENZA A; SWINE INFLUENZA; ZOONOSES;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H3N2 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE;

EID: 84890021645     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cit650     Document Type: Note

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