Emerging or newly discovered viral causes of acute lower respiratory tract infections worldwide [Elektronisk resurs] / Marietjie Venter and Orienka Hellferscee.

• Contents: Lower respiratory infections -- Global distribution of mortality among children -- Community-acquired pneumonia in children -- Causes of severe acute respiratory infections -- The three classifications of viruses -- Zoonosis: new viruses – Coronaviruses and SARS -- Avian influenza -- Hendra virus -- Nipah virus -- Emergence of new zoonotic viruses -- Newly recognized causes of ALRI – Rhinovirus -- Para-influenza 4 -- Coronaviruses NL63 & HKU1 -- Newly discovered viruses -- Human metapneumovirus -- Human bocavirus -- Polyomaviruses, WU and KI – Mimivirus -- Importance of newly discovered ALRTI causes -- Requirements for further research.

Ämnesord

Respiratory infections in children.  (LCSH)

Respiratory infections.  (LCSH)

SARS (Disease)  (LCSH)

Virus diseases.  (LCSH)

Acute Disease.  (MeSH)

Child.  (MeSH)

Coronavirus.  (MeSH)

Influenza, Human  -- virology. (MeSH)

Pneumonia  -- virology. (MeSH)

Respiratory Tract Infections  -- epidemiology. (MeSH)

Respiratory Tract Infections  -- virology. (MeSH)

SARS Virus.  (MeSH)

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome  -- virology. (MeSH)