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Acknowldgment The authors acknowledge substantial contributions to this chapter from work of Joseph Bresee in previous editions. Influenza viruses cause annual winter epidemics of respiratory illness in temperate climates and have resulted in four influenza pandemics since 1900. The global…
Polyomaviruses are a subgroup of small, ubiquitous DNA viruses that belong to the family Papovaviridae. The two most commonly known human polyomaviruses are the BK virus and JC virus, which were first described in 1971. , Subsequently, 12 other human…