Severe acute respiratory syndrome: Lessons from Singapore

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1294-1298

  Singh, Kamaljit ^a   Hsu, Li Yang ^b   Villacian, Jorge S ^b   Habib, Abdulrazaq ^a   Fisher, Dale ^a   Tambyah, Paul A ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONAVIRUS; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MYALGIA; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHINORRHEA; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SINGAPORE; SORE THROAT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0141755250     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0910.030388     Document Type: Article

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