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Edited by Sarah S. Long, Larry K. Pickering, and Charles G. Prober
3rd ed (rev reprint) (with CD-ROM), 1618 pp, $249
Philadelphia, PA, Churchill Livingston/Elsevier, 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-7020-3468-8

JAMA. 2009;302(11):1233-1234.

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The same week in June that I received my copy of Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (3rd ed, revised reprint), the World Health Organization declared nonseasonal H1N1 influenza virus a worldwide pandemic. So, wondering whether the tag "revised reprint" was a sign that this paper-and-ink textbook was struggling to stay afloat in a sea of digital competition, I read the influenza chapter. What I found was reassuring. Kantu Subbarao, the author of this chapter, highlights how pandemic flu is caused by novel virus strains emerging from reassortment of human and nonhuman influenza genetic material. Swine serve as a "mixing vessel" for these genetic ingredients. Not surprisingly, China is an ideal kitchen, because the natural hosts of flu—aquatic birds, pigs, and humans—reside there together in close proximity.

Some textbooks are cookbooks, but this is not. The flu chapter in this updated, comprehensive, single-volume book is characteristic of others in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Mark D. Widome, MD, MPH, Reviewer
College of Medicine
Pennsylvania State University
Hershey
mdw4@psu.edu

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