A cluster of cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 348, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 1977-1985

  Tsang, Kenneth W ^a   Ho, Pak L ^a   Ooi, Gaik C ^a   Yee, Wilson K ^b   Wang, Teresa ^a   Chan Yeung, Moira ^a   Lam, Wah K ^a   Seto, Wing H ^a   Yam, Loretta Y ^c   Cheung, Thomas M ^c   Wong, Poon C ^a   Lam, Bing ^a   Ip, Mary S ^a   Chan, Jane ^a   Yuen, Kwok Y ^a   Lai, Kar N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b KWONG WAH HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^c PAMELA YOUDE NETHERSOLE EASTERN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CORTICOSTEROID; CREATININE; RIBAVIRIN; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; COUGHING; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DYSPNEA; ENZYME ASSAY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HONG KONG; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INCUBATION TIME; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER FUNCTION; LUNG AUSCULTATION; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALAISE; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PERCUSSION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RIGOR; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RIBAVIRIN; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

EID: 0013255608     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa030666     Document Type: Article

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