Print Close Window’One of the strengths of this book is that the chapters are written by different individual authors, reflecting their areas of research expertise, and in almost all of the chapters, the detail is enough to satisfy even an experienced influenza worker.
An outstanding collection of articles that should have a place in every animal or human influenza research laboratory. It should be recommended reading for undergraduate and postgraduate scientists, veterinarians, and clinicians studying influenza. Virtually all of the chapters represent authoritative, up-to-the-minute overviews of the basic science of influenza by real experts and cover some of the most active areas in avian influenza research.’
Maria C.Zambon
Central Public Health Laboratory, Virus Reverence Laboratory, National Influenza Laboratory, London, England
(Clinical Infectious Diseases 2009; 48:1489–90)
’This is book is a relatively condensed yet very readable overview of avian influenza, which will serve as an excellent resource for those entering the field, or for those who wish to keep abreast of developments in this high profile area. It ranges from the historical aspects (covered in the Foreword and in a later dedicated chapter), through epidemiology and phylogeny of recent outbreaks to investigation of host-range and virulence determinants by 'reverse-genetics'. These aspects are set in context by consideration of the current H5N1 panzootic and the 1918 H1N1 pandemic. The book is therefore not restricted to avian disease, but approaches evolution of pandemic viruses, in chapters on pigs as hosts, receptor specificity, polymerase function and the origins of the 1918 H1N1 virus. Aspects relevant to practical control, from mechanisms of pathogenesis to the use of vaccines and antivirals, are also well covered.’
Mike Skinner, Imperial College London
(Microbiology Today, February 2009)
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