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cord-257698-ed2tqn35	Wong, Raymond S.M.	Index Patient and SARS Outbreak in Hong Kong	2004-02-17		.txt	text/plain	1495	86	53	During the global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, treatment was empiric. We report the case history of the index patient in a hospital outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong. Other laboratory tests were performed, including blood, sputum, and urine cultures, nasopharyngeal aspirate for influenza and parainfluenza, indirect immunofluorescence for respiratory syncytial viral antigen detection, and atypical pneumonia titer (for adenovirus, Chlamydia psittaci, Q fever, influenza A and B, and Mycoplasma). Our patient was identified as the index case-patient 5 days after the onset of this large outbreak at the Prince of Wales Hospital, as he was the first patient who had the characteristic clinical, radiologic, and laboratory features of SARS and had epidemiologic links with other infected persons. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Singapore: clinical features of index patient and initial contacts	./cache/cord-257698-ed2tqn35.txt	./txt/cord-257698-ed2tqn35.txt