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International Conference on SARS - one year after the (first) outbreak

08. - 11.05.2004, Lübeck

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Description of the first case of confirmed SARS in Italy

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  • Amedeo Capetti - Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Ward - L. Sacco University Hospital - Milan (Italy)
  • Paolo Bonfanti - Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Ward - L. Sacco University Hospital - Milan (Italy)
  • Barbara Argentieri - Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Ward - L. Sacco University Hospital - Milan (Italy)
  • Lorenzo Drago - Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Ward - L. Sacco University Hospital - Milan (Italy)
  • Ivano Faggioni - Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Ward - L. Sacco University Hospital - Milan (Italy)
  • Marco Resta - Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Ward - L. Sacco University Hospital - Milan (Italy)
  • Roberta Terzi - Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Ward - L. Sacco University Hospital - Milan (Italy)
  • Alessandra Lombardi - Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Ward - L. Sacco University Hospital - Milan (Italy)
  • corresponding author presenting/speaker Maria Rita Gismondo - Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Ward - L. Sacco University Hospital - Milan (Italy)
  • Gian Marco Vigevano - Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Ward - L. Sacco University Hospital - Milan (Italy)

International Conference on SARS - one year after the (first) outbreak. Lübeck, 08.-11.05.2004. Düsseldorf, Köln: German Medical Science; 2004. Doc04sarsP2.04

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Veröffentlicht: 26. Mai 2004

© 2004 Capetti et al.
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Since the initial recognition by the WHO, the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemics has involved thousands of people in East Asia and Canada. However, several cases have been reported in many countries around the world, including most European Countries, where local transmission has so far not occurred, except for one case in the United Kingdom. Many of the reported cases are only clinical suspicions in which microbiologial evidence of the presence of the new Coronavirus is lacking. On the other hand in Italy, in only 4 cases of 8 clinically suspected the presence of the virus has been objectively documented. We report the first case of SARS observed in Italy in which the new Coronavirus has been repeatedly detected. The patient, an Italian male recently returned from Hanoi (Vietnam), was initially treated with antibiotics to avoid the worsening of a Chlamydia or mycoplasma-induced atypical pneumonia, but subsequently developed serious respiratory insufficiency from which he recovered around the 12th day of admission. He was retained in the hospital for a 7-day quarantine, as recommended by the WHO. CoV was detected by using RTPCR test and isolated on cellular line.

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