Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Beijing, 2003

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-31

  Liang, Wannian ^a   Zhu, Zonghan ^a   Guo, Jiyong ^a   Liu, Zejun ^a   He, Xiong ^a   Zhou, Weigong ^b   Chin, Daniel P ^c   Schuchat, Anne ^b,d  

^a Beijing Municipal Health Bureau   (China)

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

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PROBABILITY; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0346100600     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1001.030553     Document Type: Article

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