Lack of SARS Transmission among Public Hospital Workers, Vietnam
Le Dang Ha*†
1, Sharon A. Bloom‡
1 , Nguyen Quang Hien†, Susan A. Maloney‡, Le Quynh Mai§, Katrin C. Leitmeyer¶, Bach Huy Anh**, Mary G. Reynolds‡, Joel M. Montgomery‡, James A. Comer‡, PeterW. Horby**, and Aileen J. Plant††
Author affiliations: *Institute for Clinical Research in Tropical Medicine, Hanoi, Vietnam; †Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam; ‡Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; §National Institute for Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi, Vietnam; ¶Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland; #Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam; **Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response, WHO, Hanoi, Vietnam; ††Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia; 1Primary coauthor.
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Figure. Laboratory-confirmed cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) by date of admission, in hospital A and hospital B, Vietnam, February–April 2003. The ten case-patients who were transferred from hospital A to hospital B on March 29, 2003, are noted by cross-hatching.
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