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    WHO Global Influenza Surveillance Network.
    Summary: "WHO has developed this manual in order to strengthen the laboratory diagnosis and virological surveillance of influenza infection by providing standard methods for the collection, detection, isolation and characterization of viruses"--Publisher's description.

    Contents:
    pt. 1. The virology and epidemiology, control and surveillance of influenza. Influenza virology and epidemiology
    Influenza control
    Influenza surveillance
    pt. 2. The laboratory diagnosis and virological surveillance of influenza. Collection, storage and transport of specimens
    Processing of clinical specimens for virus isolation
    Virus isolation in cell culture
    Virus isolation and passage in embryonated chicken eggs
    Identification of the haemagglutinin subtype of viral isolates by haemagglutination inhibition testing
    Serological diagnosis of influenza by haemagglutination inhibition testing
    Serological diagnosis of influenza by microneutralization assay
    Identification of neuraminidase subtype by neuraminidase assay and neuraminidase inhibition test
    Molecular identification of influenza isolates
    Virus identification by immunofluorescence antibody staining
    Use of neuraminidase inhibition assays to determine the susceptibility of influenza viruses to antiviral drugs.
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    RA644.I6 M36 2011
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