Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Singapore: Clinical Features of Index Patient and Initial Contacts

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is an emerging viral infectious disease. One of the largest outbreaks of SARS to date began in Singapore in March 2003. We describe the clinical, laboratory, and radiologic features of the index patient and the patient’s initial contacts affected with probabl...

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Autores principales: Hsu, Li-Yang, Lee, Cheng-Chuan, Green, Justin A., Ang, Brenda, Paton, Nicholas I., Lee, Lawrence, Villacian, Jorge S., Lim, Poh-Lian, Earnest, Arul, Leo, Yee-Sin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2003
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000162/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12781012
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0906.030264
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Sumario:Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is an emerging viral infectious disease. One of the largest outbreaks of SARS to date began in Singapore in March 2003. We describe the clinical, laboratory, and radiologic features of the index patient and the patient’s initial contacts affected with probable SARS.

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