Prescott's Microbiology
Prescott's Microbiology
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ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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To determine: The course and symptoms of infection of influenza virus.

Introduction: Influenza virus is the most common form of the viral disease, which is highly contagious and spread from one individual to the other through a variety of means like infected objects, coughing, sneezing, and so on.

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To determine: The reason for the difficulty in developing a single flu vaccine.

Introduction: The flu virus has a large number of strains based on the presence of two surface proteins called the hemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N). The flu strains are based on the different types of these two surface proteins. The most familiar of them are H1N1 strain.

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