Recent Reviews in Child Health
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Introduction Influenza viruses are segmented, negative-sense, enveloped RNA viruses that belong to the family Orthomyxoviridae. Influenza is a highly contagious acute respiratory disease of global importance that has caused epidemics and pandemics for centuries. The three types of influenza, A, B and C can be distinguished by serological responses to their internal proteins. From a medical point of view, influenza A and B are more important than influenza C, so the following abstract will mainly be focused on influenza A and B.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002