Swine Influenza

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Richt, J<U+00fc>rgen A. (Editor), Webby, Richard J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 370
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Medical virology.; Biomedicine.; Virology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36871-4

The central role which swine have played in the ecology of influenza is set out in this book in 15 chapters within a comprehensive international framework. The result is a <U+0018>One Health<U+0019> perspective on the role of swine influenza viruses (SIVs) at the animal-human-environment...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Overview of influenza viruses
• History of swine influenza
• Genetics, evolution and the zoonotic capacity of European swine influenza virus.- History of swine influenza virus
• Clinicopathological features of swine influenza.- Diagnostics and surveillance for swine influenza.- Contemporary epidemiology of North American lineage triple reassortant influenza A viruses in pigs
• History and epidemiology of swine influenza in Europe.- Swine influenza viruses: an Asian perspective
• Swine influenza virus vaccines - to change, or not to change: that's the question.- Swine influenza virus infections in man
• Interspecies transmission of influenza A viruses between swine and poultry
• The 2009 pandemic influenza virus: Where did it come from, where is it now, and where is it going? - Pandemic influenza A H1N1 in swine and other animals
• Therapeutics against influenza
• Subject index. .