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Volume 10, Number 3—March 2004
Dispatch

Patient Data, Early SARS Epidemic, Taiwan

Po-Ren Hsueh*, Pei-Jer Chen*, Cheng-Hsiang Hsiao*, Shiou-Huei Yeh†, Wen-Chen Cheng*, Jiun-Ling Wang*, Bor-Luen Chiang*, Shan-Chwen Chang*, Feng-Yee Chang‡, Wing-Wai Wong§, Chuan-Liang Kao*1, Pan-Chyr Yang*1Comments to Author , and the SARS Research Group of National Taiwan University College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital
Author affiliations: *National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; †National Health Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan; ‡Tri-service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; and; §Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, Taiwan

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Figure 1

Two clusters involving nine patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) who were initially treated at National Taiwan University Hospital. A: One cluster was composed of four patients; two acquired SARS through household contact with an index patient, who had returned from Guangdong Province in China; the fourth was a healthcare worker caring for patient 2. B: The second cluster was composed of four fellow passengers in an airplane (patients 5–8), who sat near a symptomatic patient wi

Figure 1. Two clusters involving nine patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) who were initially treated at National Taiwan University Hospital. A: One cluster was composed of four patients; two acquired SARS through household contact with an index patient, who had returned from Guangdong Province in China; the fourth was a healthcare worker caring for patient 2. B: The second cluster was composed of four fellow passengers in an airplane (patients 5–8), who sat near a symptomatic patient with SARS (patient X) within the airplane, and one patient (patient 9), who had subsequent close contact with patient 5. Square, male patient; circle, female patient; black, probable case of SARS; blank, healthy person; shading, date of the onset of symptoms; HCW, healthcare worker.

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1Pan-Chyr Yang and Chuan-Liang Kao contributed equally to this article.

2The SARS Research Group of National Taiwan University College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital includes the following members: Ding-Shinn Chen, Yuan-Teh Lee, Che-Ming Teng, Pan-Chyr Yang, Hong-Nerng Ho, Pei-Jer Chen, Ming-Fu Chang, Jin-Town Wang, Shan-Chwen Chang, Chuan-Liang Kao, Wei-Kung Wang, Cheng-Hsiang Hsiao, and Po-Ren Hsueh.

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