Human viruses: discovery and emergence
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- 19 October 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
- Vol. 367 (1604), 2864-2871
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0354
Abstract
There are 219 virus species that are known to be able to infect humans. The first of these to be discovered was yellow fever virus in 1901, and three to four new species are still being found every...Keywords
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