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Volume 10, Number 2—February 2004
THEME ISSUE
2004 SARS Edition
SARS Transmission

Lack of SARS Transmission and U.S. SARS Case-Patient

Angela J. Peck*Comments to Author , E. Claire Newbern*†, Daniel R. Feikin*, Elmira T. Isakbaeva*, Benjamin J. Park*, Jason T. Fehr‡, Ashley C. LaMonte*, Thong P. Le§, Terry L. Burger¶, Luther V. Rhodes¶#, Andre Weltman**, Dean D. Erdman*, Thomas G. Ksiazek*, Jairam R. Lingappa*, and the SARS Pennsylvania Case Investigation Team
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ‡Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA; §Infectious Diseases Service, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA; ¶Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network, Allentown and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA; #Allentown Infectious Diseases Services, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA; and; **Pennsylvania Department of Health, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

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Figure 1

Timeline: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) case-patient symptoms and total daily number of contacts from date of symptom onset to date of hospital discharge. Contacts indicated regardless of their subsequent participation in this investigation. Close contact was defined as any contact within 3 feet or contact within 3 to 10 feet for an extended duration (two persons). Repeated contacts by the same person over successive days are shown as independent events. *Healthcare-related contact re

Figure 1. Timeline: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) case-patient symptoms and total daily number of contacts from date of symptom onset to date of hospital discharge. Contacts indicated regardless of their subsequent participation in this investigation. Close contact was defined as any contact within 3 feet or contact within 3 to 10 feet for an extended duration (two persons). Repeated contacts by the same person over successive days are shown as independent events. *Healthcare-related contact refers to non–healthcare worker (HCW) contacts in a healthcare setting (persons in waiting rooms of physician office and referral laboratory, curtained area in the emergency department, and two persons who reportedly used personal protective equipment (PPE) and visited the case-patient in his hospital room on 4/15 and 4/16.

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1Members of the Pennsylvania SARS Investigation Team: Marc-Alain Widdowson, Nino Khetsuriani, L. Clifford McDonald, Stephan S. Monroe, Suxiang Tong, James A. Comer, Daniel Jernigan, Matthew J. Kuehnert, Joseph S. Bresee, Sara A. Lowther, and Larry J. Anderson (CDC); Mary Theresa Temarantz, John P. Bart, William S. Miller, Mary Jo Lampart, and Carol Yozviak (Pennsylvania Department of Health); Shana Stites, (Bethlehem Bureau of Health); Susan Oliver, Debra Wilson, Carol Guanowsky, and Beverly Wasko (Lehigh Valley Hospital); Corwin A. Roberston (CDC and New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services); and Diane Krolikowski, Jeff Bomboy, and Reynaldo C. Guerra.

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