Influenza: from zoonosis to pandemic

Affiliations

¹ Artemis One Health Research Foundation, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
² Dept of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Artemis One Health Research Foundation, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Research Centre for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses, University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany.

Editorial

Leslie A Reperant et al. ERJ Open Res. 2016.

. 2016 Mar 11;2(1):00013-2016.

doi: 10.1183/23120541.00013-2016. eCollection 2016 Jan.

¹ Artemis One Health Research Foundation, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
² Dept of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Artemis One Health Research Foundation, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Research Centre for Emerging Infections and Zoonoses, University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany.

Abstract

Global surveillance and advances in vaccine technology are essential to answer the threat of influenza pandemics http://ow.ly/Yt3e4.

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