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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Chen, Yee-Chun ; Huang, Li-Min ; Chan, Chang-Chuan ; Su, Chan-Ping ; Chang, Shan-Chwen ; ... More +
Chen, Yee-Chun ; Huang, Li-Min ; Chan, Chang-Chuan ; Su, Chan-Ping ; Chang, Shan-Chwen ; Chang, Ying-Ying ; Chen, Mei-Ling ; Hung, Chien-Ching ; Chen, Wen-Jone ; Lin, Fang-Yue ; Lee, Yuan-Teh Less -
Corporate Authors:
SARS Research Group of National Taiwan University College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital
Description:
Thirty-one cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) occurred after exposure in the emergency room at the National Taiwan University Hospital. The index patient was linked to an outbreak at a nearby municipal hospital. Three clusters were identified over a 3-week period. The first cluster (5 patients) and the second cluster (14 patients) occurred among patients, family members, and nursing aids. The third cluster (12 patients) occurred exclusively among healthcare workers. Six healthcare workers had close contact with SARS patients. Six others, with different working patterns, indicated that they did not have contact with a SARS patient. Environmental surveys found 9 of 119 samples of inanimate objects to be positive for SARS coronavirus RNA. These observations indicate that although transmission by direct contact with known SARS patients was responsible for most cases, environmental contamination with the SARS coronavirus may have lead to infection among healthcare workers without documented contact with known hospitalized SARS patients.
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Adult Aged Aged, 80 And Over Communicable Diseases, Emerging Contact Tracing Disease Outbreaks Emergency Service, Hospital Environmental Contamination Environmental Exposure Environmental Monitoring Epidemiological Monitoring Female Healthcare Workers Health Personnel Hospitals, University Humans Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional Male Middle Aged Real-time Reverse Transcriptase–polymerase Chain Reaction Research RNA, Viral SARS Virus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Taiwan
Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 10(5):782-788.
Document Type:
Journal Article
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
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https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/14443/cdc_14443_DS1.pdf
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