Product Description

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.

With 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.

Despite 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.

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: A Clinical Guide meets the urgent need for a comprehensive, authoritative reference guide for everyone in the medical and scientific community engaged in the fight against SARS:

• Definitive book on SARS, clearly and accurately documenting the extraordinary medical and scientific events around this new epidemic
  
• International experts in the field, with many contributors from the WHO and CDC
  
• Will help reader to understand and prevent future outbreaks with a repeat of the same consequences

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2006807 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-13
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.45 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 280 pages

Review
"In order to be prepared, those involved in providing microbiological (and virological) diagnostic services, infectious disease clinicians and all
those involved in infection control should ensure that they have ready access to this book. The editors must be congratulated on ensuring that all 25 chapters were produced and edited only three years after the first cases were reported - no mean achievement."
Journal of Hospital Infection

"The book is a ‘must-read’ for all infection control nurses involved in planning for pandemic influenza...It is certainly a text I would like to see as an available resource in the local healthcare library."
British Journal of Infection Control

From the Back Cover

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.

With 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.

Despite 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.

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: A Clinical Guide meets the urgent need for a comprehensive, authoritative reference guide for everyone in the medical and scientific community engaged in the fight against SARS:

• Definitive book on SARS, clearly and accurately documenting the extraordinary medical and scientific events around this new epidemic
  
• International experts in the field, with many contributors from the WHO and CDC
  
• Will help reader to understand and prevent future outbreaks with a repeat of the same consequences

About the Author
Malik Peiris, Department of Microbiology, University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong

Larry J Anderson, Chief, Respiratory and Enteric Viruses Branch, MS A34, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA

Albert DME Osterhaus, Department of Virology, Erasmus Medical Centre, The Netherlands

Klaus Stohr, Global Influenza Programme, CDS/CSR, RMD, Switzerland

Kwok-yung Yuen, Department of Microbiology, University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong