Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: A Clinical Guide

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. brpWith 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. brpDespite 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. brpbiSevere Acute Respiratory Syndrome: A Clinical Guide/i meets the urgent need for a comprehensive, authoritative reference guide for everyone in the medical and scientific community engaged in the fight against SARS: /bbrulbrliDefinitive book on SARS, clearly and accurately documenting the extraordinary medical and scientific events around this new epidemic brliInternational experts in the field, with many contributors from the WHO and CDC brliWill help reader to understand and prevent future outbreaks with a repeat of the same consequences/li/uliContributors, vii.pForeword, xi.pAcknowledgements, xv/i.pb1 SARS: A Historical Perspective from Hong Kong/b.pKwok-yung Yuen and Nan-shan Zhong.pb2 SARS: A Global Perspective/b.pDavid L Heymann.pb3 Clinical Presentation of the Disease in Adults/b.pJY Sung and Kwok-yung Yuen.pb4 SARS in Children/b.pCW Leung.pb5 SARS: Sequelae and Implications for Rehabilitation/b.pDavid S Hui and Kenneth W Tsang.pb6 Radiology of SARS/b.pClara GC Ooi.pb7 Aetiology of SARS/b.pMalik Peiris and Albert DME Osterhaus.pb8 Structure of the Genome of SARS CoV/b.pPaul A Rota, Xin Liu, Byron T Cook and Suxiang Tong.pb9 Viral Diagnosis of SARS/b.pC Drosten, KH Chan and LLM Poon.pb10 Pathology and Pathogenesis/b.