Description and clinical treatment of an early outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Guangzhou, PR China

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 715-720

  Zhao, Z ^a   Zhang, F ^b   Xu, M ^b   Huang, K ^a   Zhong, W ^a   Cai, W ^b   Yin, Z ^b   Huang, S ^c   Deng, Z ^d   Wei, M ^e   Xiong, J ^a,f   Hawkey, P M ^f  

^a GUANGZHOU FIRST PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL   (China)

^b Guangzhou Munic Ninth People Hosp   (China)

^c Second Affil Hosp Guangzhou M   (China)

^d GUANGZHOU RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (China)

^e Sixth Munic People's Hosp G   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RECOMBINANT ALPHA INTERFERON; RIBAVIRIN; STEROID; SULPERAZON;

ADULT; AEROSOL; ARTICLE; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; COUGHING; CROSS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MORTALITY; MYALGIA; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN THERAPY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON-ALPHA; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; QUARANTINE; SARS VIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0042354620     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.05320-0     Document Type: Article

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