InfluenzaThis volume covers a common infectious disease that afflicts millions every year—the flu—but one that has the potential of being at the center of a new pandemic, similar to the one that killed millions during 1918. |
Contents
Definition of a Virus | 1 |
1 Pfeiffers Bacillus | 6 |
Classification and Morphology of the Influenza Virus | 12 |
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