SARS Outbreak, Taiwan, 2003

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 201-206

  Hsieh, Ying Hen ^a   Chen, Cathy W S ^b   Hsu, Sze Bi ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TAIWAN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0842282545     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1002.030515     Document Type: Article

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