id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-271919-pbs95hy0 Desenclos, Jean-Claude Introduction of SARS in France, March–April, 2003 2004-02-17 .txt text/plain 3412 145 56 For patients who fulfilled the definition of a probable case, respiratory secretion specimens were taken from the nose, throat, or sputum to detect for SARS-associated coronovirus (CoV) by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) (7) at the National Reference Center for Influenza (Northern France), Institut Pasteur, Paris. As recommended by WHO, this follow-up included the passengers who sat within two rows of a SARS case-patient on the Air France Hanoi-Paris flight of March 22 and 23, 2003 (14) . Passengers on a flight in which a person with a symptomatic probable case had traveled were informed publicly through the media and mail of the potential exposure and advised to call the emergency service phone number to be evaluated and admitted to the closest university-affiliated infectious disease ward if a fever of >38°C developed within 10 days of the flight. ./cache/cord-271919-pbs95hy0.txt ./txt/cord-271919-pbs95hy0.txt