Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus on hospital surfaces

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 652-657

  Dowell, Scott F ^a,b   Simmerman, James M ^a,b   Erdman, Dean D ^c   Wu, Jiunn Shyan Julian ^d   Chaovavanich, Achara ^b   Javadi, Massoud ^a,b   Yang, Jyh Yuan ^d   Anderson, Larry J ^c   Tong, Suxiang ^c   Mei, Shang Ho ^e  

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

^b MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Thailand)

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

^d ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

^e INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRONCHUS SECRETION; COMPUTER; CORONAVIRUS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, HOSPITAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; RNA, VIRAL; SARS VIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 20844447345     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/422652     Document Type: Article

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