id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-330868-7ocseuz3 Donnelly, Christl A Epidemiological determinants of spread of causal agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong 2003-05-24 .txt text/plain 3812 167 47 Public-health interventions included encouragement to report to hospital rapidly after the onset of clinical symptoms, contact tracing for confirmed and suspected cases, and quarantining, monitoring, and restricting the travel of contacts. Public-health interventions included encouragement to report to hospital rapidly after the onset of clinical symptoms, contact tracing for confirmed and suspected cases, and quarantining, monitoring, and restricting the travel of contacts. Key epidemiological determinants of the magnitude and timescale of the epidemic (figure 1) include the interval between infection and onset of symptoms and between onset and hospital admission, the degree and duration of the infectiousness of the agent, and the extent of contact and mixing between infectious and susceptible people enabling transmission of the virus. If ␥ distribution is assumed, the estimated distributions and case fatality rate varied as a function of patients' age, but not the time from onset to admission (figure 2). ./cache/cord-330868-7ocseuz3.txt ./txt/cord-330868-7ocseuz3.txt