SARS clinical features, United States, 2003

Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Jan;11(1):135-8. doi: 10.3201/eid1101.040585.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / diagnosis
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / epidemiology
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / physiopathology
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / virology
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / diagnosis
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / epidemiology
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / physiopathology*
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / virology
  • Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus / pathogenicity*
  • United States / epidemiology