Coronaviruses are a group of related viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, coronaviruses cause respiratory tract infections that can be mild, such as some cases of the common cold (among other possible causes, predominantly rhinoviruses), and others that can be lethal, such as SARS, MERS, and COVID-19. Symptoms in other species vary: in chickens, they cause an upper respiratory tract disease, while in cows and pigs they cause diarrhea. There are yet to be vaccines or antiviral drugs to prevent or treat human coronavirus infections.
Components of the Book:
- Chapter 1
A novel human coronavirus: Middle East respiratory syndrome human coronavirus
- Chapter 2
Treatment outcomes for patients with Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS CoV) infection at a coronavirus referral center in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Chapter 3
Evaluating the potential impact of targeted vaccination strategies against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreaks in the healthcare setting
- Chapter 4
Genetic and antigenic characterization of recombinant nucleocapsid proteins derived from canine coronavirus and canine respiratory coronavirus in China
- Chapter 5
Mutagenesis of the transmembrane domain of the SARS coronavirus spike glycoprotein: refinement of the requirements for SARS coronavirus cell entry
- Chapter 6
Expression profiles of immune mediators in feline Coronavirus-infected cells and clinical samples of feline Coronavirus-positive cats
- Chapter 7
Comparative analysis of the activation of unfolded protein response by spike proteins of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus and human coronavirus HKU1
- Chapter 8
Conserved antigenic sites between MERS-CoV and Bat-coronavirus are revealed through sequence analysis
- Chapter 9
The novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China
- Chapter 10
Low prevalence of equine coronavirus in foals in the largest thoroughbred horse breeding region of Japan, 2012–2014
- Chapter 11
Detection of swine transmissible gastroenteritis coronavirus using loop-mediated isothermal amplification
- Chapter 12
The novel coronavirus outbreak: what can be learned from China in public reporting?
- Chapter 13
Q&A: The novel coronavirus outbreak causing COVID-19
- Chapter 14
Coronavirus disease-2019: is fever an adequate screening for the returning travelers?
- Chapter 15
Date of origin of the SARS coronavirus strains
- Chapter 16
Impact of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS‐CoV) on pregnancy and perinatal outcome
- Chapter 17
Mutational dynamics of the SARS coronavirus in cell culture and human populations isolated in 2003
- Chapter 18
Plaque assay for human coronavirus NL63 using human colon carcinoma cells
Readership:
Students, academics, teachers and other people attending or interested in Coronavirus
WenJie Tan, Biotech Center for Viral Disease Emergency, Key Laboratory of Medical Virology and Viral Diseases Prevention and Control, Ministry of Health, National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
Dhananjay Vaidya, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Gerardo Chowell, Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA
Amin Haghani, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Ping Niu, Department of Pediatric, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan university, Wuhan,China
Hao Huang, School of Political Science and Public Administration, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
and more...