Diagnosis and Management of First Case of COVID-19 in Canada: Lessons Applied From SARS-CoV-1

Xavier Marchand-Senécal; Rob Kozak; Samira Mubareka; Natasha Salt; Jonathan B Gubbay; Alireza Eshaghi; Vanessa Allen; Yan Li; Natalie Bastien; Matthew Gilmour; Omar Ozaldin; Jerome A Leis

doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa227

Diagnosis and Management of First Case of COVID-19 in Canada: Lessons Applied From SARS-CoV-1

Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Nov 19;71(16):2207-2210. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa227.

Authors

Xavier Marchand-Senécal¹, Rob Kozak¹, Samira Mubareka^{1

2}, Natasha Salt¹, Jonathan B Gubbay³, Alireza Eshaghi³, Vanessa Allen^{2

3}, Yan Li⁴, Natalie Bastien⁴, Matthew Gilmour⁴, Omar Ozaldin⁵, Jerome A Leis^{1

6}

Affiliations

¹ Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Public Health Ontario Laboratory, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
⁵ Communicable Disease Control, Toronto Public Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Abstract

We report diagnosis and management of the first laboratory-confirmed case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) hospitalized in Toronto, Canada. No healthcare-associated transmission occurred. In the face of a potential pandemic of COVID-19, we suggest sustainable and scalable control measures developed based on lessons learned from severe acute respiratory syndrome.

Keywords: 2019-nCoV; COVID-19; Coronavirus; Infection Prevention; SARS-CoV-2.

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MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
COVID-19 Testing
Canada
Clinical Laboratory Techniques
Coronavirus Infections* / diagnosis
Coronavirus Infections* / epidemiology
Coronavirus*
Humans
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral* / epidemiology
SARS-CoV-2
Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus*