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Article: Patient data, early SARS epidemic, Taiwan.(Dispatches)
- Article from:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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Of the first 10 patients in the epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Taiwan, 4 were closely associated with a SARS patient in an airplane. Loose stools or diarrhea, hemophagocytosis syndrome, and high serum levels of interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8, and tumor necrosis factor-[alpha] associated with lung lesions were found in all 10 patients.
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