TY - CHAP AU - Rajendran Manikandan AU - Mithilesh Singh AU - Vishal Chander AU - Gaurav Kumar Sharma AU - Suresh Bindu AU - Murali Dinesh ED - David Claborn Y1 - 2021-05-29 PY - 2021 T1 - Convalescent Plasma Immunotherapy - A Possible Mitigation Strategy for SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded the world that infectious diseases are still important. The last 40 years have experienced the emergence of new or resurging viral diseases such as AIDS, ebola, MERS, SARS, Zika, and others. These diseases display diverse epidemiologies ranging from sexual transmission to vector-borne transmission (or both, in the case of Zika). This book provides an overview of recent developments in the detection, monitoring, treatment, and control of several viral diseases that have caused recent epidemics or pandemics. BT - Current Perspectives on Viral Disease Outbreaks SP - Ch. 1 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.98254 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.98254 SN - 978-1-83881-911-8 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-18 ER -