Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine (Jan 2019)

SARS and its treatment strategies

  • Chun-Song Hu,
  • Tengiz Tkebuchava

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/1995-7645.254934
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 3
pp. 95 – 97

Abstract

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This paper briefly review severe acute respiratory syndrome, a devastating disease which broke out 15 years ago, and its treatment strategies. With the newly discovered SARSr-CoV strain in Yunnan, China, and the help of new technologies such as RNA interference, DNA vaccines, CRISPR technology and base editing, and intervention of RT-ABCDEF (iRT-ABCDEF), a standardized comprehensive program, people can better fight severe acute respiratory syndrome and other major virus-communicable diseases like highly pathogenic avian influenza and dengue fever with these powerful tools in the future.

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