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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 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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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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Emerging or newly discovered viral causes of acute lower respiratory tract infections worldwide

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Lower respiratory infections -- Global distribution of mortality among children -- Community-acquired pneumonia in children -- Causes of severe acute respiratory infections -- The three classifications of viruses -- Zoonosis: new viruses -- Coronaviruses and SARS -- Avian influenza -- Hendra virus -- Nipah virus -- Emergence of new zoonotic viruses -- Newly recognized causes of ALRI -- Rhinovirus -- Para-influenza 4 -- Coronaviruses NL63 & HKU1 -- Newly discovered viruses -- Human metapneumovirus -- Human bocavirus -- Polyomaviruses, WU and KI -- Mimivirus -- Importance of newly discovered ALRTI causes -- Requirements for further research.…”
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The COVID-19 outbreak an update on the SARS-CoV-2 virus /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Mortality rates of SARS-CoV-2 and known risk factors -- Provenance of SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses -- SARS-CoV-2 as compared with seasonal influenza -- Potential impact of future mutations -- Prospective therapies.…”
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