TY - JOUR AU - Wong, Thomas AU - Wallington, Tamara AU - McDonald, L. Clifford AU - Abbas, Zahid AU - Christian, Michael AU - Low, Donald E. AU - Gravel, Denise AU - Ofner, Marianna AU - Mederski, Barbara AU - Berger, Lisa AU - Hansen, Lisa AU - Harrison, Cheryl AU - King, Arlene AU - Yaffe, Barbara AU - Tam, Theresa T1 - Late Recognition of SARS in Nosocomial Outbreak, Toronto T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2005 VL - 11 IS - 2 SP - 322 SN - 1080-6059 AB - 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. KW - SARS KW - nosocomial infections KW - surveillance KW - dispatch KW - Canada DO - 10.3201/eid1102.040607 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/2/04-0607_article ER - End of Reference