Molecular Biology of the Sars-Coronavirus

by Sunil K. Lal

Book Overview

SARS was the ?rst new plague of the twenty-?rst century. Within months, it spread worldwide from its "birthplace" in Guangdong Province, China, affecting over 8,000 people in 25 countries and territories across ?ve continents. SARS exposed the vulnerability of our modern globalised world to the spread of a new emerging infection. SARS (or a similar new emerging disease) could neither have spread so rapidly nor had such a great global impact even 50...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 364242435X
• ISBN13: 9783642424359
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"