Epidemiological features of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Beijing urban and suburb areas in 2003 / 生物医学与环境科学(英文)
Biomedical and Environmental Sciences
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(12): 227-232, 2005.
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ABSTRACT
<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To describe the epidemiologic features of an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in urban and suburb areas in Beijing and to explore their differences between these two areas.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Data of SARS cases were collected from daily notification of China Ministry of Health and a database of infectious diseases was established by the Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control (BCDC). All the data were put into dataset files by Microsoft Excel-2000 and analyzed with SPSS version 10.0 software.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The respective urban incidence and mortality rate were 29.06 and 2.21 per 100,000, while the case fatality rate was 7.62%. In contrast, the respective suburb incidence and mortality rate were 10.61 and 0.78 per 100,000, and the case fatality rate was 7.32%. No significant differences were found in demographic characteristics between the urban and suburb areas.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Beijing urban area suffered a more serious SARS epidemic than the suburb area in 2003.</p>
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Asunto principal:
Población Suburbana
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Población Urbana
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China
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Epidemiología
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Incidencia
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Mortalidad
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Ciudades
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Síndrome Respiratorio Agudo Grave
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Empleos en Salud
Tipo de estudio:
Estudio de incidencia
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Estudio pronóstico
Límite:
Adolescente
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Adulto
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Anciano
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Aged80
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Niño
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Child, preschool
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Femenino
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Humanos
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Lactante
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Masculino
País/Región como asunto:
Asia
Idioma:
Inglés
Revista:
Biomedical and Environmental Sciences
Año:
2005
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Artículo
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