Learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
define and use, or recognise definitions and applications of, each of the glossary terms in the coursedescribe influenza viruses, their structure, how they are transmitted, how they infect cells and replicate and how they produce their damage in the hostoutline the different types of immune defence which are deployed against flu infections, distinguishing those that act against infected cells from those that act against free virusdescribe how strains of the virus change over time, and relate this to the flu viruses that occur in birds and other mammalsexplain how the epidemic pattern of influenza can be related to the evolution of new strains of virus and to the specificity of the immune response against each strain.OpenLearn - Influenza: A case study

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