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Influenza virus pandemics past and future /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Influenza virus, the agent and the disease -- Epidemiology in humans and animals -- The 1918 pandemic & reconstruction of the virus -- Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus -- Future influenza pandemics -- Antiviral drugs against influenza -- Influenza virus vaccine formulations (types & usage frequency).…”
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Controlling pandemic flu

Table of Contents: “…Contents: The power of infection -- Three levels of protection -- The influenza virus -- The influenza vaccine -- Anti-viral drugs -- The three faces of hygiene -- 2009 swine flu outbreak -- Flu pandemics -- years of life lost -- Bird flu -- The common cold clinic -- influenza research in Retroscreen virology -- Influenza virus components -- The 1918 flu pandemic -- Researching the new virus on the front -- What's needed for an influenza virus to emerge? …”
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The future of influenza vaccines

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Influenza virion structure -- Available flu vaccines -- Problems with current inactivated vaccines -- Live attenuated vaccines -- Subunit vaccine -- New, recently licensed vaccines -- Flu vaccines in development -- Experimental vaccines -- Issues with pandemic vaccines -- Universal influenza vaccines -- The HA protein.…”
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Responding to pandemic influenza

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Healthcare and societal impacts of a pandemic -- Pandemic preparedness -- Surveillance and monitoring of a pandemic -- Public health countermeasures -- Antiviral drugs (influenza) -- Pandemic influenza vaccines -- Healthcare capacity and capability -- Pandemic communications -- Bioethical issues -- Training and exercising.…”
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Towards developing a universal influenza vaccine

Table of Contents: “…Contents: The challenge of developing influenza vaccines -- What is a universal influenza vaccine and how feasible is it? …”
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Non HIV anti virals

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Pharmacokinetics and clinical application of antiviral agents excluding antiretrovirals for HIV -- The therapeutic and prophylactic options for herpes infections including herpes simplex 1 and 2, varicella zoster and cytomegalovirus -- Therapeutic and prophylactic agents for influenza -- Approved agents for the treatment of hepatitis B and C.…”
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Vaccines and the fight against antimicrobial resistance 1

Table of Contents: “…Typhi polysaccharide conjugate vaccines -- Seasonal influenza vaccines -- Rotavirus vaccines.…”
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Successes and failures with vaccines

Table of Contents: “…Contents: New strategies for vaccine development -- Influenza vaccines need improvement -- The microbiome influences rotavirus vaccine efficacy -- Vaccines against cytomegalovirus -- Vaccines against human papillomavirus and cervical cancer -- Insights from structural biology and the development of vaccines against respiratory syncytial virus -- Vaccines based on DNA and RNA.…”
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