Animal coronaviruses: Lessons for sars

[Emily]

This full text article has a lot of basic background on coronaviruses.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92442/

Bookshelf ID: NBK92442
ANIMAL CORONAVIRUSES: LESSONS FOR SARS

Linda J. Saif.
Department of Food Animal Health Research Program, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center

The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) illustrates that coronaviruses (CoVs) may quiescently emerge from possible animal reservoirs and can cause potentially fatal disease in humans, as previously recognized for animals. Consequently the focus of this review will be on the emergence of new CoV strains and the comparative pathogenesis of SARS CoV with those CoVs that cause enteric and respiratory infections of various animal hosts. A review of animal CoV vaccines recently has been compiled (Saif, in press), so this topic will not be addressed.