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Airborne Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Concentrations in a Negative-Pressure Isolation Room

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Ying-Huang Tsai ,
Gwo-Hwa Wan ,
Yao-Kuang Wu  and
Kuo-Chien Tsao
Ying-Huang Tsai
Affiliation:
Departments of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, Republic of China
Gwo-Hwa Wan*
Affiliation:
Department of Respiratory Care, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taiwan, Republic of China
Yao-Kuang Wu
Affiliation:
Departments of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, Republic of China
Kuo-Chien Tsao
Affiliation:
Clinical Pathology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, Republic of China
*
Department of Respiratory Care, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, 259, Wen-Hwa 1st Road, Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, Republic of China ([email protected])
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Abstract

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This study used a sensitive polymerase chain reaction method coupled with filter sampling to detect the presence of airborne severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus in an isolation patient room with a patient with severe acute respiratory syndrome receiving mechanical ventilatory support. Polymerase chain reaction results were negative for SARS coronavirus in room air both before and after patient extubation.

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Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 27 , Issue 5 , May 2006 , pp. 523 - 525
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2006

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