SARS [[electronic resource] ] : A case study in emerging infections
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| Autore: |
McLean Angela
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| Titolo: |
SARS [[electronic resource] ] : A case study in emerging infections
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : OUP Oxford, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (144 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 614.592 |
| Soggetto topico: | SARS (Disease) -- Epidemiology |
| SARS (Disease) | |
| Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome -- Epidemiology | |
| Altri autori: |
MayRobert
PattisonJohn
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 epidemic tested global preparedness for dealing with a new infectious agent and raised important questions: how did we do, and what did we learn? This book uses the SARS outbreak as a case study to enumerate the generic issues that must be considered when |
| Titolo autorizzato: | SARS |
| ISBN: | 1-282-33527-8 |
| 9786612335273 | |
| 0-19-152447-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780799103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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