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Previous Volume 358:2654-2655 June 12, 2008 Number 24

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Edited by Stanley Perlman, Thomas Gallagher, and Eric J. Snijder. 433 pp., illustrated. Washington, DC, ASM Press, 2008. $169.95. ISBN 978-1-55581-455-7.

Nidoviruses summarizes current information about a somewhat obscure but increasingly relevant group of viruses that contain the coronaviruses that infect humans, including the virus that causes the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). The SARS epidemic, which started quietly in the fall of 2002 and spread in early 2003 to most of the world's continents — with a mortality of around 10% — resulted in a large infusion of research money into the field. As it happens, a small but enthusiastic group of virologists were already devoting their careers to unraveling the mysteries of the nidoviruses, and for them SARS was . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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