Novel and Re-emerging Respiratory Viral Diseases: Novartis Foundation Symposium 290

摘要

This slim booklet, the product of a Novartis Foundation symposium held April 23–27, 2007, at Singapore's In-stitute of Molecular and Cell Biology, primarily highlights scientific issues concerning influenza and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). The booklet comprises a mere 12 chapters of about 12 pages each of reports pre-sented and discussed by only 29 par-ticipants. This may be its strength—the book's usefulness derives from its focus on only 2 diseases covered by multidisciplinary participants in a cross-cutting fashion and relative depth