Global view of the fight against influenza
By: Petar M. Mitrasinovic, editor
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9781608769629; 9781607419525
Subjects: Preventive Medicine; Epidemiology; Influenza; Forensic Medicine; MEDICAL; Public Health; Prevention
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. William Graeme Laver (Graeme) Ph. D. frs 1929-2008 / Robert G. Webster; title: 2. The origin and control of pandemic influenza / the abstract and first section; title: the late W. Graeme Laver ; Penny G. Laver and Adrian J. Gibbs; title: 3. Flu drugs : pathway to discovery / William Graeme Laver; title: 4. Advances in molecular evolution of influenza a virus / Xiu-Feng Wan and Michael Emch; title: 5. Pathogenesis of avian influenza (h5n1) infection in humans / Ruishu Deng and Jiang Gu; title: 6. The interactions between avian h5n1 influenza virus and dendritic cell-specific icam-3 grabbing non-integrin (dc-sign) / Sheng-Fan Wang and Yi-Ming Arthur Chen; title: 7. The activity of neuraminidase inhibitor oseltamivir against all subtypes of influenza viruses / Noel A. Roberts and Elena A. Govorkova; title: 8. Computational investigations of the binding mechanism of current influenza virus neuraminidase inhibitors: correlation with experiment / Marija L. Mihajlovic and Petar M. Mitrasinovic; title: 9. The impact of structural biology on the understanding of the influenza virus and the rational design of antivirals / Philip S. Kerry and Rupert J. Russell; title: 10. The structure-based design of novel inhibitors of h5n1 virus neuraminidase / Petar M. Mitrasinovic; title: 11. On the development of vaccines against pandemic influenza / Petar M. Mitrasinovic; title: 12. Alternative strategies for vaccine development against avian flu / Michele A. Zacks and Slobodan Paessler; title: 13. Advances in quantitative analyses of the hemagglutinin of influenza a viruses and vaccines / Xuguang Li, Terry D. Cyr, Michel Girard, Changgui Li, Junzi Wang, Gary Van Domselaar, Aaron Farnsworth, Helen Macdonald-Piquard, and Runtao He; title: 14. Niaid resources for the global research community to support development of new influenza therapeutics / Amy Krafft, Rachelle Salomon, and Martin Crumrine; title: 15. Micronutrients in the global fight against influenza / Raxit J. Jariwalla, M. Waheed Roomi, Tatiana Kalinovsky, Matthias Rath, and Aleksandra Niedzwiecki; title: 16. The ikarus syndrome in the poultry industry and the concern about a new great influenza pandemic : what to learn from Ikarus' crash / Sievert Lorenzen; title: 17. Theoretical aspect of prevention policies against influenza pandemic / Shingo Iwami, Yasuhiro Takeuchi, Xianning Liu, Andrei Korobeinikov, Eunok Jung, and Tae-Chang Jo; title: 18. The impact of an emerging avian influenza virus (h5n1) in a seabird colony / Suzanne M. O'Regan, Tom C. Kelly, Andrei Korobeinikov, Michael J.A. O'Callaghan, and Alexei V. Pokrovskii; title: 19. Control of influenza at healthcare facilities in resource-limited settings / Thana Khawcharoenporn, Anucha Apisarnthanarak, and Linda M. Mundy; title: 20. Between panic and apathy : the fight against influenza in South Africa / Thomas Gstraunthaler.