SARS : a case study in emerging infections /

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The sudden appearance and rapid spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2002 served to alert the world to the fact that emerging infections are a global problem. Living in affluent societies with well developed health care systems does not necessarily protect people from the dangers po...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Royal Society (Great Britain)
Otros Autores: McLean, Angela
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Colección:Oxford biology.
Temas:
SARS (Disease) > Epidemiology.
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome > prevention & control
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome > epidemiology
Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus > genetics
Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus > pathogenicity
Syndrome respiratoire aigu sévère > Épidémiologie.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
SARS.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / A.R. McLean, R.M. May, J. Pattison, and R.A. Weiss
  • Environmental and social influences on emerging infectious diseases: past, present, and future / A.J. McMichael
  • Evolutionary genetics and the emergence of SARS Coronavirus / Edward C. Holmes and Andrew Rambaut
  • Influenza as a model system for studying the cross-species transfer and evolution of the SARS coronavirus / Robin M. Bush
  • Management and prevention of SARS in China / Nanshan Zhong and Guangqiao Zeng
  • Confronting SARS: a view from Hong Kong / J.S.M. Peiris and Y. Guan
  • The aetiology of SARS: Koch's postulates fulfilled / A.D.M.E. Osterhaus, R.A.M. Fouchier, and T. Kuiken
  • Laboratory diagnosis of SARS / Bermingham A., Heinen P., Iturriza-Gomara M., Gray J., Appleton H., and Zambon M.C.
  • Animal origins of SARS Coronavirus: possible links with the international trade in small carnivores / Diana Bell, Scott Roberton, and Paul R. Hunter
  • Epidemiology, transmission dynamics, and control of SARS: the 2002-2003 epidemic / Roy M. Anderson, Christophe Fraser, Azra C. Ghani, Christl A. Donnelly, Steven Riley, Neil M. Ferguson, Gabriel M. Leung, T.H. Lam, and Anthony J. Hedley
  • Dynamics of modern epidemics / D. Brockmann, L. Hufnagel, and T. Geisel
  • The International response to the outbreak of SARS, 2003 / David L. Heymann
  • The Experience of the 2003 SARS outbreak as a traumatic stress among frontline health-care workers in Toronto: lessons learned / Robert Maunder MD, William Lancee PhD, Sean Rourke, Jonathan Hunter MD, David Goldbloom MD, Ken Balderson MD, Patricia Petryshen, Molyn Leszcz, Rosalie Steinberg, Donald Wasylenki, David Koh, and Calvin S.L. Fones
  • Informed consent and public health / Onora O'Neill
  • What have we learnt from SARS? / Robin A. Weiss and Angela McLean.

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