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Thorax 2007;62:649
  • Miscellaneous

Risk factors associated with superspreading events in SARS

  1. Ali A Mohammed
  1. Specialist Registrar in Respiratory Medicine, Royal infirmary in Edinburgh; alimohammed@doctors.org.uk

    ▴ Yu IT, Xie ZH, Tsoi KK. Why did outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome occur in some hospital wards but not in others? Clin Infect Dis2007;44:1017–25.

    The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak of 2003 originated in Hong Kong, China, and 71.1% of the subsequent infections in Hong Kong were attributable to superspreading events. Most of these superspreading events occurred in hospitals.

    This case control study identified risk factors associated with outbreaks of SARS in hospital wards in Guangzhou and …

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