SARS [Elektronisk resurs] A case study in emerging infections / edited by Angela McLean, Robert May, John Pattison and Robin Weiss.

• 1. Introduction / Angela R. McLean, Robert M. May, John Pattison, and Robin A. Weiss -- 2. Environmental and social influences on emerging infectious diseases: past, present, and future / Anthony J. McMichael -- 3. Evolutionary genetics and the emergence of SARS Coronavirus / Edward C. Holmes, and Andrew Rambaut -- 4. Influenza as a model system for studying the cross-species transfer and evolution of the SARS coronavirus / Robin M. Bush -- 5. Management and prevention of SARS in China / Nanshan Zhong, and Guangqiao Zeng -- 6. Confronting SARS: a view from Hong Kong / J. S. Malik Peiris, and Yi Guan -- 7. The aetiology of SARS: Koch's postulates fulfilled / Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus, Ron A. M. Fouchier, and Thijs Kuiken -- 8. Laboratory diagnosis of SARS / Alison Bermingham, Paul P. Heinen, Miren Iturriza-Gómara, Jim J. Gray, Hazel Appleton, and Maria C. Zambon -- 9. Animal origins of SARS Coronavirus: possible links with the international trade in small carnivores / Diana J. Bell, Scott Roberton, and Paul R. Hunter -- 10. Epidemiology, transmission dynamics, and control of SARS: the 2002–2003 epidemic / Roy M. Anderson, Christophe Fraser, Azra C. Ghani, Christl A. Donnelly, Steven Riley, Neil M. Ferguson, Gabriel M. Leung, Tai H. Lam, and Anthony J. Hedley -- 11. Dynamics of modern epidemics / Dirk Brockmann, Lars Hufnagel, and Theo Geisel -- 12. The International response to the outbreak of SARS, 2003 / David L. Heymann -- 13. The Experience of the 2003 SARS outbreak as a traumatic stress among frontline health-care workers in Toronto: lessons learned / Robert Maunder, William J. Lancee, Sean B. Rourke, Jonathan Hunter, David S. Goldbloom, Ken Balderson, Patricia M. Petryshen, Molyn Leszcz, Rosalie Steinberg, Donald Wasylenki, David Koh, and Calvin S. L. Fones -- 14. Informed consent and public health / Onora O'Neill -- 15. What have we learnt from SARS? / Robin A. Weiss, and Angela R. McLean. 

• The sudden appearance and rapid spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003 alerted the world to the fact that emerging infections are a global problem. Living in affluent societies with well-developed healthcare 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 planning the control of emerging infections. Emerging infections are more than just a current biological fashion: the bitter ongoing experience of AIDS and the looming threat of pandemic influenza teach us that the control of infectious disease is a problem that has not been solved. Scientists from a broad range of disciplines — biologists, veterinarians, physicians, and policy makers — all need to prepare. But prepare for what? The book provides an overview of the tasks that must be addressed by a community that wishes to confront emerging infections. While focusing on SARS, the book addresses a whole range of considerations and issues, from the use of new mathematical models to account for the spread of infection across global airline networks, to a discussion of the ethics of quarantining individuals in order to protect communities. 

Ämnesord

Sars (sjukdom)  (sao)

SARS (Disease)  -- Epidemiology. (LCSH)

SARS (Disease)  (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Veba Infektionssjukdomar

Veba Infektionssjukdomar

Klassifikation

614.5/92 (DDC)

Veba/DR (kssb/7)

Veba (kssb/7)