Role of China in the quest to define and control severe acute respiratory syndrome

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1037-1041

  Breiman, Robert F ^a,g   Evans, Meirion R ^b   Preiser, Wolfgang ^c   Maguire, James ^d   Schnur, Alan ^e   Li, Ailan ^e   Bekedam, Henk ^e   MacKenzie, John S ^f  

^a ICDDR B Centre for Health and Population Research   (Bangladesh)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH WALES   (United Kingdom)

^c Institute of Medical Virology   (Germany)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^g ICDDRB Division of Health Systems and Infectious Diseases   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; HERBACEOUS AGENT; RIBAVIRIN;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHINA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONAVIRUS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PNEUMONIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SEROPREVALENCE; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0042818018     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0909.030390     Document Type: Review

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