A major outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 348, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 1986-1994

  Lee, Nelson ^a   Hui, David ^a   Wu, Alan ^a   Chan, Paul ^a   Cameron, Peter ^a   Joynt, Gavin M ^a   Ahuja, Anil ^a   Yung, Man Yee ^a   Leung, C B ^a   To, K F ^a   Lui, S F ^a   Szeto, C C ^a   Chung, Sydney ^a   Sung, Joseph J Y ^a,b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; CLARITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CREATINE KINASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; OSELTAMIVIR; RIBAVIRIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGOR; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; AUTOPSY; CHILLS; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FEVER; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HONG KONG; HUMANS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDNISOLONE; PROGNOSIS; RIBAVIRIN; RISK FACTORS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

EID: 0013074820     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa030685     Document Type: Article

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