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Volume 9, Number 6—June 2003
Dispatch

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Singapore: Clinical Features of Index Patient and Initial Contacts

Li-Yang Hsu*Comments to Author , Cheng-Chuan Lee*, Justin A. Green*, Brenda Ang*, Nicholas I. Paton*, Lawrence Lee*, Jorge S. Villacian*, Poh-Lian Lim*, Arul Earnest*, and Yee-Sin Leo*
Author affiliations: *Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Tan Tock Seng, Singapore

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Figure 3

Chest radiographs of two patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). a–c: radiographs of patient 5 showing progression of changes. a, day 8 of symptoms; b, day 13 of symptoms, d, day 14 of symptoms. He died on day 19 of this illness. d, chest radiograph, taken on day 8 of symptoms, of patient 12, with right upper lobe infiltrates resembling pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) but laryngeal swab cultures for TB were negative.

Figure 3. Chest radiographs of two patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). a–c: radiographs of patient 5 showing progression of changes. a, day 8 of symptoms; b, day 13 of symptoms, d, day 14 of symptoms. He died on day 19 of this illness. d, chest radiograph, taken on day 8 of symptoms, of patient 12, with right upper lobe infiltrates resembling pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) but laryngeal swab cultures for TB were negative.

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