Table of 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