Clinical features and outcomes of severe acute respiratory syndrome and predictive factors for acute respiratory distress syndrome

CY Chen, CH Lee, CY Liu, JH Wang, LM Wang… - Journal of the Chinese …, 2005 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is an emerging infectious
disease, and indeed, the SARS epidemic in Taiwan from March to July 2003 had a great …

Prolonged disturbances of in vitro cytokine production in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) treated with ribavirin and steroids

BM Jones, ESK Ma, JSM Peiris… - Clinical & …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a new disease which has spread rapidly and
widely. We wished to know whether evaluation of in vitro cytokine production could …

Significant changes of peripheral T lymphocyte subsets in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome

T Li, Z Qiu, L Zhang, Y Han, W He, Z Liu… - The Journal of …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
This report demonstrates that a rapid decrease of peripheral T cell subsets is a unique
characteristic in patients with SARS during acute infection, although total white blood cell …

Altered p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase expression in different leukocytes with increment of immunosuppressive mediators in patients with severe acute …

CH Lee, RF Chen, JW Liu, WT Yeh… - The Journal of …, 2004 - journals.aai.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has spread to a global pandemic, especially in
Asia. The transmission route of SARS has been clarified, but the immunopathogenesis of …

Clinical pathology and pathogenesis of severe acute respiratory syndrome

JM Zhao, GD Zhou, YL Sun, SS Wang… - Zhonghua shi yan he …, 2003 - europepmc.org
Background To explore the pathological features and pathogenesis of severe acute
respiratory syndrome (SARS) to provide evidence for the clinical treatment and prevention of …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus infection on peripheral blood lymphocytes and their subsets

Z He, C Zhao, Q Dong, H Zhuang, S Song… - International journal of …, 2005 - Elsevier
INTRODUCTION: Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) caused large outbreaks of
atypical pneumonia in 2003, with the largest localized outbreak occurring in Beijing, China …

Temporal relationship of viral load, ribavirin, interleukin (IL)—6, IL-8, and clinical progression in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome

WK Wang, SY Chen, IJ Liu, CL Kao… - Clinical infectious …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Although viral replication and overwhelming immune responses are believed to contribute to
the progression of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), little is known about the …

Expression of lymphocytes and lymphocyte subsets in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome

W Cui, Y Fan, W Wu, F Zhang, J Wang… - Clinical infectious …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
In a cohort of 38 patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), we observed
leukopenia in 47% of patients, lymphopenia in 84%, and T lymphopenia in 95%. CD4+ T …

The clinical pathology of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS): a report from China

Y Ding, H Wang, H Shen, Z Li, J Geng… - The Journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
In order to investigate the clinical pathology of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS),
the autopsies of three patients who died from SARS in Nan Fang Hospital Guangdong …

[HTML][HTML] Serologic and molecular biologic methods for SARS-associated coronavirus infection, Taiwan

HS Wu, SC Chiu, TC Tseng, SF Lin, JH Lin… - Emerging infectious …, 2004 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has raised a global alert since March 2003. After
its causative agent, SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV), was confirmed, laboratory …