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Avian Influenza in Human

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  • Focuses on human infection with different types of avian influenza viruses

  • Presents first cases of newly emerged avian influenza in human

  • Written by experts with extensive experience in the field

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

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About this book

Some avian influenza viruses can infect humans, cause disease, and even result in deaths. This book comprehensively and systematically presents the theory, diagnosis and clinical treatment of typical avian influenza viruses in human. The first chapters introduce the ethiology, epidemiology, clinical diagnosis and treatment of human avian influenza and complications. The following chapters include overview, extensive images, differential diagnosis and clinical cases of H7N9, H5N1, H5N6, H10N8, H9N2 and H7N4 avian influenza. Written by practitioners directly involved in the prevention and clinical treatment of human avian influenza, it will be an invaluable aid for practitioners in centers for infectious disease control and prevention, hospitals, and academic institutions to improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of avian influenza in human. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Respiratory and Critical Medicine, Shenzhen People’s Hospital, Shenzhen, China

    Chen Qiu

  • Department of Radiology, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Shanghai, China

    Yu-xin Shi

  • Department of Medical Imaging, Shenzhen Center for Chronic Disease Control, Shenzhen, China

    Pu-xuan Lu

About the editors

Chen Qiu is a Professor in respiratory diseases and critical care medicine at Shenzhen People’s Hospital and the Second Clinical Medical College of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.



Yuxin Shi is a Professor of Department of Radiology, Shanghai Public Health Clinic Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He is the vice-chairman of Infectious Disease Radiology Specialty Committee of Chinese Society of Radiology.


Puxuan Lu is a Professor and Director of Department of Radiology, The Shenzhen Center for Chronic Disease Control, Shenzhen, China. He is the vice-chairman of Infectious Disease Radiology Specialty Committee of Chinese Society of Radiology. Puxuan Lu is also the author of Diagnostic Imaging of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Springer, 2015.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Avian Influenza in Human

  • Editors: Chen Qiu, Yu-xin Shi, Pu-xuan Lu

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1429-3

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: People's Medical Publishing House, PR of China 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1428-6Published: 02 June 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1431-6Published: 03 June 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-1429-3Published: 01 June 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 190

  • Number of Illustrations: 70 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Infectious Diseases

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