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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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The making of an influenza pandemic

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Classification, structure and nomenclature -- The history of influenza -- The history of human pandemics and recent pandemic threats -- Pandemic versus seasonal influenza -- Antigen recycling -- Relation between animal and human influenza -- Antigen shift -- Modes of pandemic emergence -- Characteristics of human pandemics -- Summary -- Further reading.…”
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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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Antiviral drugs (non-HIV)

Table of Contents: “…-- Overview of approved antiviral drugs -- Antiviral targets mechanisms and resistance -- Hepatitis C virus: biology and current drugs -- Hepatitis B virus: biology and treatments -- Herpesvirus drugs -- Influenza virus: approved drugs -- Broad-spectrum antivirals -- Diseases for which we need antivirals.…”
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