Coronaviruses with Special Emphasis on First Insights Concerning SARS

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Coronaviridae: a review of coronaviruses and toroviruses

   • Dave Cavanagh

   Pages 1-54

3. Coronavirus infections in veterinary medicine

   • Olaf Weber, Axel Schmidt

   Pages 55-69

4. Severe acute respiratory syndrome: clinical features

   • Princess Margaret Hospital SARS Study Group, Po Oi Lee, Ping Tim Tsui, Tak Yin Tsang, Tai Nin Chau, Chi Pong Kwan et al.

   Pages 71-85

5. SARS coronavirus infection: pathology and pathogenesis of an emerging virus disease

   • Sherif R. Zaki, Cynthia S. Goldsmith

   Pages 87-99

6. Genome organization and structural aspects of the SARS-related virus

   • Caroline R. Astell, Robert A. Holt, Steven J. M. Jones, Marco A. Marra

   Pages 101-128

7. Virological laboratory diagnosis of SARS

   • Wolfgang Preiser, Christian Drosten, Hans Wilhelm Doerr

   Pages 129-144

8. Performance evaluation of a Bayer Healthcare Diagnostics research-based SARS coronavirus assay

   • Charlene E. Bush-Donovan, Tony Mazzulli, Jill J. Detmer, Johan Surtihadi

   Pages 145-158

9. Current status of therapy of SARS

   • Arthur Chun-Wing Lau, Loletta Kit-Ying So, Loretta Yin-Chun Yam

   Pages 159-171

10. Coronavirus main proteinase: target for antiviral drug therapy

    • Kanchan Anand, Haitao Yang, Mark Bartlam, Zihe Rao, Rolf Hilgenfeld

    Pages 173-199

11. Environmental survival and microbicide inactivation of coronaviruses

    • Manfred H. Wolff, Syed A. Sattar, Olusola Adegbunrin, Jason Tetro

    Pages 201-212

12. Disease management strategies in SARS

    • Andrea Ammon

    Pages 213-226

13. Back Matter

    Pages 227-232

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It is with great pleasure that we introduce the first volume of Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases.This book series focuses on relevant and trending topics in microbiology and infectious diseases with emphasis on emerging pathogens and related diseases.This interdisciplinary series presents latest advances and new approaches in molecular biology as well as insights into human and veterinary clinical medicine. Furthermore, matters in epidemiology, disease management, hygiene and prevention of infectious diseases are discussed. Emerging or novel pathogens are a grand challenge in medical science. Therefore, we focused the first volume of this series on the outbreak of SARS. The advent of SARS is a threat for people around the globe. Our modern technologies in communication and mobility have figuratively transformed the world into a village. This traffic, however, reprensents a new opportunity to spread diseases, particularly such of infectious nature from tiny villages throughout the entire world. In-depth knowledge of a novel pathogen's characteristics will help to manage or event prevent pandemias.

• Coronavirus
• SARS
• antiviral drug
• disease management
• infection
• infections
• infectious
• virus
• infectious diseases

"... all the most relevant findings on SARS are considered in the pages of this interesting volume which is a precious tool for veterinarians, virologists, clinicians who are interested in improving their knowledge on Coronaviruses and this novel and severe disease." (European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences)

• Faculty of Medicine, University Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany

  Axel Schmidt

• Institut für Molekulare Medizin und Experimentelle Immunologie, Universitätsklinikum Bonn Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany

  Olaf Weber

• Faculty of Biosciences, University Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany

  Manfred H. Wolff

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