Late Recognition of SARS in Nosocomial Outbreak, Toronto
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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.
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Critical role of nosocomial transmission in the toronto sars outbreak.
We develop a compartmental mathematical model to address the role of hospitals in severe acute respiratory syndrome ( SARS ) transmission dynamics, which partially explains the heterogeneity of the epidemic. Comparison of the effects of two major policies, strict hospital infection control procedures and community-wide quarantine measures, implemented in Toronto two weeks into the initial outbr...
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