Airborne severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus concentrations in a negative-pressure isolation room.
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.
Tsai
Ying-Huang
YH
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, 259 Wen-Hwa 1st Road, Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, Republic of China.
Wan
Gwo-Hwa
GH
Wu
Yao-Kuang
YK
Tsao
Kuo-Chien
KC