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Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS): a review of the history, epidemiology, prevention, and concerns for the future

During the first part of 2003, the world experienced the first epidemic of the 21st century with the emergence of a new and readily transmissible disease. The disease, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), spread quickly and caused numerous deaths, as well as public panic. This article provides...

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Autores principales: Demmler, Gail J, Ligon, B.Lee
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2003
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7128384/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12913837
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1045-1870(03)00056-6
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spelling pubmed-71283842020-04-08 Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS): a review of the history, epidemiology, prevention, and concerns for the future Demmler, Gail J Ligon, B.Lee Semin Pediatr Infect Dis Article During the first part of 2003, the world experienced the first epidemic of the 21st century with the emergence of a new and readily transmissible disease. The disease, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), spread quickly and caused numerous deaths, as well as public panic. This article provides a brief review of the initial history of the epidemiology, as well as of the clinical definition, occurrence in the pediatric population, etiology, prevention, drug studies, and considerations for the future. Elsevier Inc. 2003-07 2004-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7128384/ /pubmed/12913837 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1045-1870(03)00056-6 Text en Copyright © 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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