Journal article
Preparing for 2009 H1N1 Influenza
The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol.361(20), pp.1991-1993
11/12/2009
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe0909666
PMID: 19907047
Abstract
In 1743, when disease was presumed to be astral in origin, European newspapers reported on a contagious influence ( influenza in Italian) that was being visited on the citizens of Rome. Two hundred years later, Wilson Smith and colleagues would isolate an influenza A virus, one of the members of the orthomyxovirus family. 1 The key reservoirs of all influenza A viruses are migrating waterfowl, and intermittently, other hosts, such as pigs and people, are infected. Further classification of influenza A viruses is based on the specific hemagglutinin viral attachment spike and neuraminidase disengagement spike; the latter is cleaved when newly . . .
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Preparing for 2009 H1N1 Influenza
- Creators
- Richard P WenzelMichael B Edmond
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol.361(20), pp.1991-1993
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- DOI
- 10.1056/NEJMe0909666
- PMID
- 19907047
- ISSN
- 0028-4793
- eISSN
- 1533-4406
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/12/2009
- Academic Unit
- Infectious Diseases; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9983905642102771
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