SARS : a case study in emerging infections / edited by Angela McLean [and others].

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Description
ix, 133 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

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    Notes
    "Originating from contribution to a Discussion Meeting of the Royal Society of London."
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-126) and index.
    Contents
    • 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.
    ISBN
    • 0198568193 (alk. paper)
    • 0198568185 (alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2004027494
    OCLC
    57002555
    RCP
    C - S
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