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9780198568186

SARS A Case Study in Emerging Infections

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198568186

  • ISBN10:

    0198568185

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-05-12
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

This title includes the following features: Provides a modern overview ofthe science of emerging infectious diseases; Written by leading experts in the field; Tells the story of the emergence andglobal spread of SARS; Considers SARS in the context of the generic issuesrelating to the control of emerging infections; Introductory and concluding chapters draw out common themes and lessonslearned

Author Biography


Angela McLean is a University Lecturer in the Zoology Department of the University of Oxford. Her professional interests are the transmission dynamics and within-host dynamics of infectious agents.
Lord Robert May of Oxford is President of the Royal Society and Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford.
John Pattison is Director of Research and Development at the Department of Health in the UK.
Robin Weiss is Professor of Viral Oncology at University College London.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Environmental and social influences on emerging infectious diseases: past, present, and future
Evolutionary genetics and the emergence of SARS coronavirus
Influenza as a model system for studying the cross-species transfer and evolution of the SARS coronavirus
Management and prevention of SARS in China
Confronting SARS: A view from Hong Kong, Malik Peiris
The aetiology of SARS: Koch's postulates fulfilled
Laboratory Diagnosis of SARS
Animal origins of SARS coronavirus: possible links with the international trade in small carnivores
Epidemiology, transmission dynamics and control of SARS: the 2002-2003 epidemic
Dynamics of modern epidemics
The international response to the outbreak of SARS, 2003
The experience of the 2003 SARS outbreak as a traumatic stress among frontline healthcare workers in Toronto: lessons learned
Informed consent and public health
What have we learnt from SARS?
References
Index
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