A Collection of Articles on Influenza from PLoS Medicine and other PLoS Journals

VACCINES AND IMMUNITY

Live, Attenuated Influenza A H₅N₁ Candidate Vaccines Provide Broad Cross-Protection in Mice and FerretsSuguitan Jr. AL, McAuliffe J, Mills KL, Jin H, Duke G, et al

A Step Closer to Meeting the Threat of Avian Influenza Schultz-Cherry S, McCullers JA

Cross-reactive neuraminidase antibodies afford partial protection against H5N1 in mice and are present in unexposed humans Sandbulte MR, Jimenez GS, Boon ACM, Smith LR, Treanor JJ, et al

Can immunity induced by the human influenza virus N1 neuraminidase provide some protection from avian influenza H5N1 viruses? Gillim-Ross L, Subbarao K

DIAGNOSIS

Rapid and Highly Informative Diagnostic Assay for H₅N₁ Influenza Viruses Pourmand N, Diamond L, Garten R, Erickson JP, Kumm J, et al

PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS

Priority Setting for Pandemic Influenza: An Analysis of National Preparedness Plans Uscher-Pines L, Omer SB, Barnett DJ, Burke TA, Balicer RD

Pandemic Influenza: The Inside Story Nicholls H

A Systematic Analytic Approach to Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Planning Barnett DJ, Balicer RD, Lucey DR, Everly GS, Omer SB, et al.

Pandemic Influenza: Risk of Multiple Introductions and the Need to Prepare for Them Mills CE, Robins JM, Bergstrom CT, Lipsitch M

The Scientific Response to a Pandemic Gronvall GK, Waldhorn RE, Henderson DA

MODELING OF DISEASE AND INTERVENTIONS

A Comparative Analysis of Influenza Vaccination Programs Bansal S, Pourbohloul B, Meyers LA

Delaying the International Spread of Pandemic Influenza Cooper BS, Pitman RJ, Edmunds WJ, Gay NJ

Reducing the Impact of the Next Influenza Pandemic Using Household-Based Public Health Interventions Wu JT, Riley S, Fraser C, Leung GM

The Effectiveness of Contact Tracing in Emerging Epidemics Klinkenberg D, Fraser C, Heesterbeek H

Modeling the Worldwide Spread of Pandemic Influenza: Baseline Case and Containment Interventions Colizza V, Barrat A, Barthelemy M, Valleron AJ, Vespignani A

The Waiting Time for Inter-Country Spread of Pandemic InfluenzaCaley P, Becker NG, Philp DJ

Antiviral Resistance and the Control of Pandemic Influenza Lipsitch M, Cohen T, Murray M, Levin BR

BIOLOGY

Whole-Genome Analysis of Human Influenza A Virus Reveals Multiple Persistent Lineages and Reassortment among Recent H₃N₂ Viruses Holmes EC, Ghedin E, Miller N, Taylor J, Bao Y, et al.

Stochastic Processes Are Key Determinants of Short-Term Evolution in Influenza A Virus Nelson MI, Simonsen L, Viboud C, Miller MA, Taylor J, et al.

Detrimental Contribution of the Toll-Like Receptor (TLR)₃ to Influenza A Virus-Induced Acute Pneumonia Le Goffic RL, Balloy V, Lagranderie M, Alexopoulou L, Escriou N, et al

Influenza Virus PB₁-F₂ Protein Induces Cell Death through Mitochondrial ANT₃ and VDAC₁ Zamarin D, García-Sastre A, Xiao X, Wang R, Palese P

Temperature Drops and the Onset of Severe Avian Influenza A H5N1 Virus Outbreaks Liu C, Lin S, Chen Y, Lin K, Wu T, et al

PUBLIC HEALTH

Influenza-Associated Hospitalization in a Subtropical City Wong CM, Yang L, Chan KP, Leung GM, Chan KH, et al.

Influenza in Tropical Regions Viboud C, Alonso WJ, Simonsen L

Empirical Evidence for the Effect of Airline Travel on Inter-Regional Influenza Spread in the United States Brownstein JS, Wolfe CJ, Mandl KD