Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Clinical outcome and prognostic correlates

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1064-1069

  Tsui, Ping Tim ^a,b   Kwok, Man Leung ^a   Yuen, Hon ^a   Lai, Sik To ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^b Dept of Medicine and Geriatrics ^*  (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; RIBAVIRIN; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUTROPHIL; PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROPREVALENCE; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0042818004     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0909.030362     Document Type: Article

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