SARS Clinical Features, United States, 2003

SARS Clinical Features, United States, 2003

Padmini Srikantiah, Myrna D. Charles, Sarah Reagan, Thomas A. Clark, Mathias W.R. Pletz, Priti R. Patel, Robert M. Hoekstra, Jairam Lingappa, John A. Jernigan, Marc Fischer

We compared the clinical features of 8 U.S. case-patients with laboratory-confirmed severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) to 65 controls who tested negative for SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) infection. Shortness of breath, vomiting, diarrhea, progressive bilateral infiltrates on chest radiograph, and need for supplemental oxygen were significantly associated with confirmed SARS-CoV infection.

2005

severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS, SARS-associated coronavirus, clinical features, United States, case-control

DOI: 10.3201/eid1101.040585

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Infectious and parasitic diseases, Medicine

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