Late Recognition of SARS in Nosocomial Outbreak, Toronto

Late Recognition of SARS in Nosocomial Outbreak, Toronto

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

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.

2005

SARS, nosocomial infections, Surveillance, dispatch, Canada

DOI: 10.3201/eid1102.040607

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Infectious and parasitic diseases, Medicine

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