Molecular Biology of the SARS-Coronavirus

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lal, Sunil K. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Medical microbiology.; Virology.; Infectious diseases.; Cell biology.; Microbiology.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Life Sciences.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.; Medical Microbiology.; Cell Biology.; Infectious Diseases.

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 spre...