Infection Control and SARS Transmission among Healthcare Workers, Taiwan

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Chen, Yee-Chun ; Chen, Pei-Jer ; Chang, Shan-Chwen ; Kao, Chiang-Lian ; Wang, Shiou-Hwa ; Wang, Li-Hua ; Yang, Pan-Chyr
• Corporate Authors:
  SARS Research Group of National Taiwan University College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital
• Description:
  This study found infrequent transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus to healthcare workers involved in the care of the first five case-patients in Taiwan, despite a substantial number of unprotected exposures. Nonetheless, given that SARS has been highly transmissible on some occasions, we still recommend strict precautions.
• Subjects:
  • Dispatch
  • Infection-control measures
  • serologic assays
  • SARS-CoV
  • Antibodies, Viral
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging
  • Health Personnel
  • Humans
  • Infection Control
  • Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional
  More +
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 10(5):895-898.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  10
• Issue:
  5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/14499/cdc_14499_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 172.16 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:02e804a944a112655370d0fc43e776b76bbeadd47b56f0c8b0d327c4ed8baae5