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Title
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Breaking the HxNy outbreak
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Authors
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Jayapal Manikandan1, Karthik Hemanthakumar 2, Peter Natesan Pushparaj 2*
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Affiliation
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University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Article Type
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Views & Challenges | |
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Date
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Received October 10 2009, Accepted November 14 2009, Published February 28, 2010
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Abstract |
The latest emergence of influenza A (H1N1) virus outbreak demonstrated how swiftly a new strain of flu can evolve and spread around the globe. The A/H1N1 flu has been spreading at unprecedented speed, and further spread within the countries being affected and to other adjacent or far way countries is considered inevitable due to the rapid emigration of infected individuals across the world. In this bioinformation, we discuss the mechanism of evolution of a new HxNy strain and the essential criteria for potentially breaking the outbreak of these extremely harmful and rapidly evolving viral strains in the near future by taking the recent H1N1 pandemic as a classical paradigm.
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Keywords |
Influenza A, HxNy, H1N1, Pandemic, Outbreak | |
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Citation
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Manikandan et al., Bioinformation, 4(8) 338-340 (2010) | |
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Edited by
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P. Kangueane
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ISSN
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0973-2063
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License
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This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. |