Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Lessons from Singapore

An outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) occurred in Singapore in March 2003. To illustrate the problems in diagnosing and containing SARS in the hospital, we describe a case series and highlight changes in triage and infection control practices that resulted. By implementing these ch...

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Autores principales: Singh, Kamaljit, Hsu, Li-Yang, Villacian, Jorge S., Habib, Abdulrazaq, Fisher, Dale, Tambyah, Paul A.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2003
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3033073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14609466
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0910.030388
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author Singh, Kamaljit
Hsu, Li-Yang
Villacian, Jorge S.
Habib, Abdulrazaq
Fisher, Dale
Tambyah, Paul A.
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Hsu, Li-Yang
Villacian, Jorge S.
Habib, Abdulrazaq
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description An outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) occurred in Singapore in March 2003. To illustrate the problems in diagnosing and containing SARS in the hospital, we describe a case series and highlight changes in triage and infection control practices that resulted. By implementing these changes, we have stopped the nosocomial transmission of the virus.
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spelling pubmed-30330732011-02-09 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Lessons from Singapore Singh, Kamaljit Hsu, Li-Yang Villacian, Jorge S. Habib, Abdulrazaq Fisher, Dale Tambyah, Paul A. Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch An outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) occurred in Singapore in March 2003. To illustrate the problems in diagnosing and containing SARS in the hospital, we describe a case series and highlight changes in triage and infection control practices that resulted. By implementing these changes, we have stopped the nosocomial transmission of the virus. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2003-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3033073/ /pubmed/14609466 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0910.030388 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Singh, Kamaljit
Hsu, Li-Yang
Villacian, Jorge S.
Habib, Abdulrazaq
Fisher, Dale
Tambyah, Paul A.
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Lessons from Singapore
title Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Lessons from Singapore
title_full Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Lessons from Singapore
title_fullStr Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Lessons from Singapore
title_full_unstemmed Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Lessons from Singapore
title_short Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Lessons from Singapore
title_sort severe acute respiratory syndrome: lessons from singapore
topic Dispatch
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3033073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14609466
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0910.030388
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