SARS Virus
SARS clinical features in the United States described
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, April 10th, 2005
According to recent research from the United States, "We compared the clinical features of eight 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," said Padmini Srikantiah and colleagues at the U.S. Centers for Disease...
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