Article
[Influenza pandemic: hypotheses and facts].
Zhurnal mikrobiologii, epidemiologii i immunobiologii - 1 Jan 2000
Gendon Iu Z
Abstract excerpt
Data on influenza pandemics as well as on the characteristics of influenza viruses, which caused pandemicsin 1918, 1957, 1968, and 1977 are presented. Mechanisms of pandemic influenza virus strains evolving, including mutations resulting in increase of virulence, as well as possibility of human and avian influenza viruses reassortment process as the source of pandemic strains are discussed. Mechanisms of...
Topics
- Animals
- Disease Outbreaks
- Global Health
- History, 20th Century
- History, 21st Century
- Humans
- Influenza A Virus, H5N1 Subtype
- Influenza A virus
- Influenza, Human
- Mutation
- Species Specificity
- Virulence
