SARS Clinical Features, United States, 2003
severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS, SARS-associated coronavirus, clinical features, United States, case-control
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.
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
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Infectious and parasitic diseases, Medicine