Late Recognition of SARS in Nosocomial Outbreak, Toronto

摘要

Late recognition of severe acute respiratory syndrome(SARS) was associated with no known SARS contact, hos-pitalization before the nosocomial outbreak was recog-nized, symptom onset while hospitalized, wards with SARSclusters, and postoperative status. SARS is difficult to rec-ognize in hospitalized patients with a variety of underlyingconditions in the absence of epidemiologic links