Severe acute respiratory syndrome / edited by Malik Peiris ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peiris, Malik

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

SARS (Disease).

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

Disease Outbreaks--prevention & control.

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome--prevention & control.

Medical Subjects:

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

Disease Outbreaks--prevention & control.

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome--prevention & control.

Physical Description:

xv, 263 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Malden, Mass : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

Summary:

Prompting the first Who global health alert for over a decade, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was first recognised in South-East Asia in February 2003.

With the causative agent now identified as a new strain of coronavirus, the medical world has gained important knowledge on the aetiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, pathogenesis, epidemiology, disease treatment and infection control with amazing speed.

Despite this, major gaps remain in our understanding - the race is on to develop new cures and effective vaccines, and the long-term impact on health, society and economics are starting to unravel.

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome meets the urgent need for a comprehensive, authoritative reference guide for everyone in the medical and scientific community engaged in the fight against SARS: Definitive book on SARS, clearly and accurately documenting the extraordinary medical and scientific events around this new epidemic, International experts in the field who were directly involved in confronting the outbreak, Will help the reader to understand and prevent future outbreaks.

Contents:

SARS: an historical perspective from Hong Kong / Kwok-yung Yuen and Nan-shan Zhong

SARS: a global perspective / David L. Heymann

Clinical presentation of the disease in adults / J.Y. Sung and Kwok-yung Yuen

SARS in children / C.W. Leung

SARS: sequelae and implications for rehabilitation / David S. Hui and Kenneth W. Tsang

Radiology of SARS / Clara G.C. Ooi

Aetiology of SARS / Malik Peiris and Albert D.M.E. Osterhaus

Structure of the genome of SARS CoV / Paul A. Rota ... [et al.]

Viral diagnosis of SARS / C. Drosten, K.H. Chan, and L.L.M. Poon

Pathology and pathogenesis / J.M. Nicholls and T. Kuiken

SARS coronavirus: an animal reservoir / Yi Guan ... [et al.]

Comparative biology of animal coronaviruses: lessons for SARS / Linda J. Saif

Epidemiology and transmission of SARS / Angela Merianos ... [et al.]

Transmission dynamics and control of the viral aetiological agent of SARS / Gabriel M. Leung ... [et al.]

The seasonality of respiratory virus diseases: implications for SARS? / J.C. de Jong and W.L. Lim

Public health response: a view from Singapore / Chorh Chuan Tan

Public health response: a view from Hong Kong / T. Tsang

Public health response: a view from a region with a low incidence of SARS / James W. LeDuc

Infection control for SARS: causes of success and failure / W.H. Seto, P.T.Y. Ching, P.L. Ho

Antiviral agents for SARS / Frederick G. Hayden and Mark R. Denison

Vaccines / Kanta Subbarao

Counting the economic cost of SARS / Y.C. Richard Wong and Alan Siu

Preparing for a possible resurgence of SARS / Umesh D. Parashar ... [et al.]

Lessons for the future: pandemic influenza / Robert G. Webster and David S. Fedson

Lessons learnt / Albert D.M.E. Osterhaus and Malik Peiris.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1405130318

OCLC:

57311420

Publisher Number:

9781405130318