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UNINA9910808901603321 |
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Titolo |
SARS : a case study in emerging infections / / edited by Angela McLean ... [et al.] |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-33527-8 |
9786612335273 |
0-19-152447-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (144 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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SARS (Disease) - Epidemiology |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Originating from contribution to a Discussion Meeting of the Royal Society of London." |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Contributors; List of Abbreviation; 1 Introduction; 2 Environmental and social influences on emerging infectious diseases: past, present, and future; 3 Evolutionary genetics and the emergence of SARS Coronavirus; 4 Influenza as a model system for studying the cross-species transfer and evolution of the SARS coronavirus; 5 Management and prevention of SARS in China; 6 Confronting SARS: a view from Hong Kong; 7 The aetiology of SARS: Koch's postulates fulfilled; 8 Laboratory diagnosis of SARS |
9 Animal origins of SARS Coronavirus: possible links with the international trade in small carnivores10 Epidemiology, transmission dynamics, and control of SARS: the 2002-2003 epidemic; 11 Dynamics of modern epidemics; 12 The International response to the outbreak of SARS, 2003; 13 The Experience of the 2003 SARS outbreak as a traumatic stress among frontline health-care workers in Toronto: lessons learned; 14 Informed consent and public health; 15 What have we learnt from SARS?; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 posed by life-threatening infections. The SARS |
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