Clinical Description of a Completed Outbreak of SARS in Vietnam February-May 2003

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 334-338

  Vu, Hoang Thu ^a   Leitmeyer, Katrin C ^b,c   Le, Dang Ha ^d   Miller, Megge J ^e   Nguyen, Quang Hien ^d   Uyeki, Timothy M ^f   Reynolds, Mary G ^f   Aagesen, Jesper ^g   Nicholson, Karl G ^h   Vu, Quang Huy ^a   Bach, Huy Anh ⁱ   Plant, Aileen J ^j  

^a Hanoi French Hospital   (Viet Nam)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d BACH MAI HOSPITAL   (Viet Nam)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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

^g SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^h LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^j CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; MACROLIDE; OSELTAMIVIR; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIBAVIRIN; STEROID; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIET NAM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 10744229623     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1002.030761     Document Type: Article

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