Index Patient and SARS Outbreak in Hong Kong

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• Journal Article:
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Personal Author:
  Wong, Raymond S.M. ; Hui, David S.
• Description:
  During the global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, treatment was empiric. We report the case history of the index patient in a hospital outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong. The patient recovered after conventional antimicrobial therapy. Further studies are needed to address treatment of SARS, which has high attack and death rates.
• Subjects:
  • Dispatch
  • Severe acute respiratory syndrome
  • antiviral agents
  • treatment
  • Adult
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Hong Kong
  • Humans
  • Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional
  • Male
  More +
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 10(2):339-341.
• ISSN:
  1080-6059 (online) ; 1080-6040 (print)
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights:
  Open Access
• CIO:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)
• Division:
  Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID)
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions
• Volume:
  10
• Issue:
  2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/14466/cdc_14466_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 95.31 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
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