Avian influenza - The next pandemic?

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medicine, and Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta;

John M Conly et al. Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol. 2004 Sep.

. 2004 Sep;15(5):252-4.

doi: 10.1155/2004/121394.

¹ Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medicine, and Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta;

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