Illness in intensive care staff after brief exposure to severe acute respiratory syndrome

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1205-1210

  Scales, Damon C ^a   Green, Karen ^a   Chan, Adrienne K ^a   Poutanen, Susan M ^a   Foster, Donna ^a   Nowak, Kylie ^a   Raboud, Janet M ^b   Saskin, Refik ^a   Lapinsky, Stephen E ^a   Stewart, Thomas E ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVOFLOXACIN; PREDNISONE; RIBAVIRIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL STAFF; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OXYGEN THERAPY; PNEUMONIA; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0141643245     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0910.030525     Document Type: Article

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