Peiris / Anderson / Osterhaus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

A Clinical Guide
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-75521-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten, E-Book

Prompting the first WHO global health alert for over a decade,Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was first recognised inSouth-East Asia in February 2003.
With the causative agent now identified as a new strain ofcoronavirus, the medical world has gained important knowledge onthe aetiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, pathogenesis,epidemiology, disease treatment and infection control with amazingspeed.
Despite this, major gaps remain in our understanding - the raceis on to develop new cures and effective vaccines, and thelong-term impact on health, society and economics are starting tounravel.
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: A Clinical Guidemeets the urgent need for a comprehensive, authoritative referenceguide for everyone in the medical and scientific community engagedin the fight against SARS:
* * Definitive book on SARS, clearly and accurately documenting theextraordinary medical and scientific events around this newepidemic
* International experts in the field, with many contributors fromthe WHO and CDC
* Will help reader to understand and prevent future outbreakswith a repeat of the same consequences

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peiris, Malik

Anderson, Larry J.

Osterhaus, Albert D. M. E.

Stohr, Klaus

Yuen, Kwok-yung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors, vii.
Foreword, xi.
Acknowledgements, xv.
1 SARS: A Historical Perspective from Hong Kong.
Kwok-yung Yuen and Nan-shan Zhong.
2 SARS: A Global Perspective.
David L Heymann.
3 Clinical Presentation of the Disease in Adults.
JY Sung and Kwok-yung Yuen.
4 SARS in Children.
CW Leung.
5 SARS: Sequelae and Implications for Rehabilitation.
David S Hui and Kenneth W Tsang.
6 Radiology of SARS.
Clara GC Ooi.
7 Aetiology of SARS.
Malik Peiris and Albert DME Osterhaus.
8 Structure of the Genome of SARS CoV.
Paul A Rota, Xin Liu, Byron T Cook and Suxiang Tong.
9 Viral Diagnosis of SARS.
C Drosten, KH Chan and LLM Poon.
10 Pathology and Pathogenesis.
JM Nicholls and T Kuiken.
11 SARS Coronavirus: An Animal Reservoir?.
Yi Guan, Hume Field, Gavin JD Smith and Honglin Chen.
12 Comparative Biology of Animal Coronaviruses: Lessons forSARS.
Linda J Saif.
13 Epidemiology and Transmission of SARS.
Angela Merianos, Robert Condon, Hitoshi Oshitani, Denise Werkerand Roberta Andraghetti.
14 Transmission Dynamics and Control of the ViralAetiological Agent of SARS.
Gabriel M Leung, Anthony J Hedley, Tai Hing Lam, Azra C Ghani,Christl A Donnelly, Christophe Fraser, Steven Riley, Neil MFerguson and Roy M Anderson.
15 The Seasonality of Respiratory Virus Diseases:Implications for SARS?.
JC de Jong and WL Lim.
16 Public Health Response: A View from Singapore.
Chorh Chuan Tan.
17 Public Health Response: A View from Hong Kong.
T Tsang.
18 Public Health Response: A View from a Region with a LowIncidence of SARS.
James W LeDuc.
19 Infection Control for SARS: Causes of Success andFailure.
WH Seto, PTY Ching and PL Ho.
20 Antiviral Agents for SARS.
Frederick G Hayden and Mark R Denison.
21 Vaccines.
Kanta Subbarao.
22 Counting the Economic Cost of SARS.
YC Richard Wong and Alan Siu.
23 Preparing for a Possible Resurgence of SARS.
Umesh D Parashar, Angela Merianos, Cathy Roth and Larry JAnderson.
24 Lessons for the Future: Pandemic Influenza.
Robert G Webster and David S Fedson.
25 Lessons Learnt.
Albert DME Osterhaus and Malik Peiris.
Appendix.
Index.
Colour plate facing page

Über Autor(innen)

Malik Peiris, Department of Microbiology, University of HongKong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
Larry J Anderson, Chief, Respiratory and Enteric VirusesBranch, MS A34, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,Atlanta, USA
Albert DME Osterhaus, Department of Virology, ErasmusMedical Centre, The Netherlands
Klaus Stohr, Global Influenza Programme, CDS/CSR, RMD,Switzerland
Kwok-yung Yuen, Department of Microbiology, University ofHong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong