Tak Keung Ng

TL;DR: Pregnancy and perinatal outcomes of pregnant women with severe acute respiratory syndrome with SARS in Hong Kong are evaluated and SARS during pregnancy is associated with high incidences of spontaneous miscarriage, preterm delivery, and intrauterine growth restriction.

TL;DR: A retrospective study from a Hong Kong hospital found that most of the 227 patients with laboratory-confirmed SARS presented with fever, chills, myalgia, pulmonary infiltrates, and lymphopenia; some had cough, shortness of breath, and rales; during hospitalization, half had diarrhea and one fourth required intensive care for respiratory failure.

TL;DR: The prevalence of fluoroquinolone non-susceptibility (levofloxacin MIC > or = 4 mg/L) was 13.3%, but increased to 27.3% among the penicillin-resistant isolates.

TL;DR: The collection procedures for stool and pooled nasal and throat swab specimens were the least likely to transmit infection, and the combination gave the highest yield for coronavirus detection by RT-PCR.

TL;DR: By multivariate analysis, positive RT-PCR on nasopharyngeal aspirate samples was an independent predictor of death within 30 days of severe acute respiratory syndrome.