Volume 9, Number 10—October 2003
Perspective
Syndromic Surveillance and Bioterrorism-related Epidemics
Table 1
Disposition after initial medical care | No. of patients |
---|---|
Admitted to hospital |
7 |
Discharged home from ER, subsequent hospital admission |
2 |
Discharged home from outpatient provider, subsequent hospital admission |
2 |
Total |
11 |
Anthrax diagnosis |
|
Blood or CSF culture on hospital admission, presumptive diagnosis <24 h |
7 |
Blood culture from preceding ER visit, patient recalled for admission |
1 |
Prior antibiotic therapy; clinical suspicion of anthrax; specialized test required to establish diagnosis |
3 |
Total | 11 |
aER, emergency room; CSF, cerebrospinal fluid.
1For interval calculations, if reported event dates were discrepant in different case reports, dates reported by Jernigan et al. (13) were used.
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