Influenza

My lifetime encompasses the postwar subsidence in the early 1920s of the greatest influenza pandemic in history, direct encounters with FM1 virus at Fort Mon­ mouth in 1947, the care of influenza patients in the 1950s, the pursuit of the in­ fluenza virus through the modern pandemics of 1957 and 196...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kilbourne, E.D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1987, 1987
Edition:1st ed. 1987
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction
  • 1. History of Influenza
  • II. The Influenza Viruses
  • 2. Taxonomy and Comparative Virology of the Influenza Viruses
  • 3. Viral Structure and Composition
  • 4. Replication of Influenza Viruses
  • 5. Cytopathogenesis and Cytopathology of Influenza Virus Infection of Cells in Culture
  • 6. Influenza Virus Genetics, Viral Adaptation, and Evolution
  • III. Influenza: Infection And Disease
  • 7. Influenza in Man
  • 8. The Laboratory Diagnosis of Influenza
  • 9. Animal Influenza: Ecology and Disease
  • IV. Epidemiology, Surveillance, And Control
  • 10. The Epidemiology of Influenza
  • 11. The Control of Influenza