Severe acute respiratory syndrome and other emerging severe respiratory viral infections

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

ten, and contained information relevant for clinicians. Chapter 26, which covered positron emission tomography (PET), was surprisingly thin, especially given the robust amount of recently published information on PET in lung cancer diagnosis and staging. More information on PET technique, examples of PET/computed-tomography fusion images, and clinically-oriented recommendations (eg, when should...

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a new clinical entity which was first observed in Guangdong, China at the end of 2002. Since then there have been more than 7000 probable cases worldwide and more than 800 deaths. The difficulties of managing patients with this potentially fatal condition have been compounded by a lack of data relating to the condition and its highly infectious nature...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome and respiratory protection.

To the Editor—Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) emerged last year as a new infectious disease, as well as an occupational hazard for health care workers treating infected patients. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently drafted guidlines suggesting that routes of transmission of the SARS-associated coronavirus (CoV) involve the mucous membranes, such as the respira...

Severe Viral Respiratory Tract Infections in Children

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus and viral mimicry.

Sir—Viruses have evolved various strategies to counteract host-cell processes, notably our immune responses toward their invasion. Oleszak and colleagues reported that the spike proteins of coronaviruses, particularly the mouse hepatitis virus, bovine coronavirus, and transmissible gastroenteritis virus, display Fc gamma receptor activity. Such molecular mimicry of components of our own immune ...