Late Recognition of SARS in Nosocomial Outbreak, Toronto
subject: SARS, nosocomial infections, Surveillance, dispatch, Canada
description: Late recognition of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was associated with no known SARS contact, hospitalization before the nosocomial outbreak was recognized, symptom onset while hospitalized, wards with SARS clusters, and postoperative status. SARS is difficult to recognize in hospitalized patients with a variety of underlying conditions in the absence of epidemiologic links.
creator: Thomas Wong, Tamara Wallington, L. Clifford McDonald, Zahid Abbas, Michael Christian, Donald E Low, Denise Gravel, Marianna Ofner, Barbara Mederski, Lisa Berger, Lisa Hansen, Cheryl Harrison, Arlene King, Barbara Yaffe, Theresa Tam
source: Emerging Infectious Diseases
publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
date: 2005
language: EN
identifier: DOI: 10.3201/eid1102.040607
coverage: Infectious and parasitic diseases, Medicine