Mapping influenza transmission in the ferret model to transmission in humans

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue September 2015, 2015, Pages

  Buhnerkempe, Michael G ^a,b   Gostic, Katelyn ^a   Park, Miran ^a   Ahsan, Prianna ^a   Belser, Jessica A ^c   Lloyd Smith, James O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FERRET; GENERAL PATHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC; REVERSE GENETICS; SECONDARY ATTACK RATE; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS INFECTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FERRETS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS;

EID: 84943812972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.07969     Document Type: Article

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