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cord-294551-s3nsiano	Muller, M. P.	Early diagnosis of SARS: lessons from the Toronto SARS outbreak	2006-04-04		.txt	text/plain	3638	160	47	To identify features of the clinical assessment that are useful in SARS diagnosis, the exposure status and the prevalence and timing of symptoms, signs, laboratory and radiographic findings were determined for all adult patients admitted with suspected SARS during the Toronto SARS outbreak. Patients were classified as confirmed SARS if they had a compatible clinical illness (fever or nonproductive cough or dyspnea), an exposure to SARS (direct contact with a known SARS case or travel to a SARS-endemic area or time spent at an institution where SARS transmission was occurring, within 12 days of symptom onset), and a positive microbiological test (positive acute or convalescent serology, or positive PCR from clinical or pathological specimens). Findings associated with a confirmed diagnosis included direct exposure to a known case (OR, 2.34; 95%CI, 1.01-5.40), symptomatic fever as an initial symptom (OR, 5.07; 95%CI, 2.24-11.50), a documented temperature of 38.0°C on admission to hospital (OR, 2.6; 95%CI, 1.14-5.92), and the presence of a pulmonary infiltrate by the time of admission (OR, 2.46; 95%CI, 1.09-5.56).	./cache/cord-294551-s3nsiano.txt	./txt/cord-294551-s3nsiano.txt