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Case Reports
. 2003 Oct;9(10):1205-10.
doi: 10.3201/eid0910.030525.

Illness in intensive care staff after brief exposure to severe acute respiratory syndrome

Damon C Scales  1 , Karen Green, Adrienne K Chan, Susan M Poutanen, Donna Foster, Kylie Nowak, Janet M Raboud, Refik Saskin, Stephen E Lapinsky, Thomas E Stewart
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Illness in intensive care staff after brief exposure to severe acute respiratory syndrome

Damon C Scales et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2003 Oct.
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Regression tree describing selected contact characteristics in healthcare workers who entered the index patient’s room. Does not include results for one healthcare worker who had no history of entering the index patient’s room but nevertheless acquired severe acute respiratory syndrome.
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