Wresting SARS from Uncertainty

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 167-170

  Lingappa, Jairam R ^a   McDonald, L Clifford ^a   Simone, Patricia ^a   Parashar, Umesh D ^a,b  

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ASIA; CANADA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NOTE; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TRAVEL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED STATES;

ASIA; CANADA; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0842325731     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1002.031032     Document Type: Note

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