Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
Identifieur interne : 001785 ( Pmc/Corpus ); précédent : 001784; suivant : 001786Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
Auteurs : David S. C. Hui ; Alimuddin ZumlaSource :
- Infectious Disease Clinics of North America [ 0891-5520 ] ; 2019.
Abstract
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), emerged from China and rapidly spread worldwide. Over 8098 people fell ill and 774 died before the epidemic ended in July 2003. Bats are likely an important reservoir for SARS-CoV. SARS-like CoVs have been detected in horseshoe bats and civet cats. The main mode of transmission of SARS-CoV is through inhalation of respiratory droplets. Faeco-oral transmission has been recorded. Strict infection control procedures with respiratory and contact precautions are essential. Fever and respiratory symptoms predominate, and diarrhea is common. Treatment involves supportive care. There are no specific antiviral treatments or vaccines available.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.idc.2019.07.001
PubMed: 31668196
PubMed Central: 7127569
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<record><TEI><teiHeader><fileDesc><titleStmt><title xml:lang="en">Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome</title><author><name sortKey="Hui, David S C" sort="Hui, David S C" uniqKey="Hui D" first="David S. C." last="Hui">David S. C. 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C." last="Hui">David S. C. Hui</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1">Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Stanley Ho Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Zumla, Alimuddin" sort="Zumla, Alimuddin" uniqKey="Zumla A" first="Alimuddin" last="Zumla">Alimuddin Zumla</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2">Center for Clinical Microbiology, University College London, Royal Free Campus 2nd Floor, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF, United Kingdom</nlm:aff></affiliation></author></analytic><series><title level="j">Infectious Disease Clinics of North America</title><idno type="ISSN">0891-5520</idno><idno type="eISSN">1557-9824</idno><imprint><date when="2019">2019</date></imprint></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en"><p>Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), emerged from China and rapidly spread worldwide. 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<front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Infect Dis Clin North Am</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">Infect. Dis. Clin. North Am</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Infectious Disease Clinics of North America</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">0891-5520</issn><issn pub-type="epub">1557-9824</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Elsevier Inc.</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmid">31668196</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">7127569</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">S0891-5520(19)30057-1</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/j.idc.2019.07.001</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome</article-title><subtitle>Historical, Epidemiologic, and Clinical Features</subtitle></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" id="au1"><name><surname>Hui</surname><given-names>David S.C.</given-names></name><degrees>MBBS, MD(UNSW), FRACP, FRCP(Lond, Edin, Glasg), FHKCP, FHKAM(Med)</degrees><email>dschui@cuhk.edu.hk</email><xref rid="aff1" ref-type="aff">a</xref><xref rid="cor1" ref-type="corresp">∗</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="au2"><name><surname>Zumla</surname><given-names>Alimuddin</given-names></name><degrees>MBChB, MSc, PhD, MD, FRCP(Lond), FRCP(Edin), FRCPath(UK), FAAS</degrees><xref rid="aff2" ref-type="aff">b</xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><label>a</label>Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Stanley Ho Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong</aff><aff id="aff2"><label>b</label>Center for Clinical Microbiology, University College London, Royal Free Campus 2nd Floor, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF, United Kingdom</aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author. <email>dschui@cuhk.edu.hk</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="pmc-release"><day>25</day><month>10</month><year>2019</year></pub-date><pmc-comment> PMC Release delay is 0 months and 0 days and was based on .</pmc-comment>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub"><month>12</month><year>2019</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>25</day><month>10</month><year>2019</year></pub-date><volume>33</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>869</fpage><lpage>889</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>© 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2019</copyright-year><copyright-holder>Elsevier Inc.</copyright-holder><license><license-p>Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract abstract-type="teaser" id="abs0010"><p>Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), emerged from China and rapidly spread worldwide. Over 8098 people fell ill and 774 died before the epidemic ended in July 2003. Bats are likely an important reservoir for SARS-CoV. SARS-like CoVs have been detected in horseshoe bats and civet cats. The main mode of transmission of SARS-CoV is through inhalation of respiratory droplets. Faeco-oral transmission has been recorded. Strict infection control procedures with respiratory and contact precautions are essential. Fever and respiratory symptoms predominate, and diarrhea is common. Treatment involves supportive care. There are no specific antiviral treatments or vaccines available.</p></abstract><kwd-group id="kwrds0010"><title>Keywords</title><kwd>SARS</kwd><kwd>Coronavirus</kwd><kwd>Epidemic</kwd><kwd>Epidemiology</kwd><kwd>Clinical</kwd><kwd>Prevention</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="sec1"><title>Key points</title><p id="p0010"><boxed-text id="dtbox1"><p id="p0015"><list list-type="simple" id="ulist0010"><list-item id="u0010"><label>•</label><p id="p0020">Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is highly infectious zoonotic respiratory disease of humans with significant morbidity and mortality. The specific animal host reservoir remains unknown although horseshoe bats are reservoirs of coronaviruses.</p></list-item><list-item id="u0015"><label>•</label><p id="p0025">SARS is caused by SARS-coronavirus (SARS-CoV), which first emerged in China and gained global notoriety in 2002 to 2003 causing a travel-related global outbreak with 8098 cases and 774 deaths. Nosocomial transmission of SARS-CoV was common.</p></list-item><list-item id="u0020"><label>•</label><p id="p0030">The main mode of transmission of SARS-CoV is person-to-person spread through inhalation of respiratory droplets. Feco-oral transmission via contaminated fomite on surfaces has been recorded.</p></list-item><list-item id="u0030"><label>•</label><p id="p0040">Fever and respiratory symptoms, such as influenza predominate, and diarrhea is common. About 25% of cases can rapidly progress and require intensive care.</p></list-item><list-item id="u0035"><label>•</label><p id="p0045">Treatment involves supportive care with appropriate fluid and electrolyte balance, oxygenation, and organ support. Convalescent plasma, protease inhibitors, and interferon might confer beneficial effects.</p></list-item><list-item id="u0040"><label>•</label><p id="p0050">Prevention requires strict infection control procedures, with respiratory and contact precautions for routine care, but upgrade to airborne precaution is needed for managing aerosol-generating procedures.</p></list-item></list></p></boxed-text></p></sec><sec id="sec2"><title>Introduction</title><p id="p0055">Over the past 2 decades 2 previously unknown coronaviruses (CoVs), the severe acute respiratory syndrome CoV (SARS-CoV) and the Middle East respiratory syndrome CoV (MERS-CoV) have focused medical, scientific, and media attention because of their lethal nature and epidemic potential. In November 2002, the first case of SARS occurred in Foshan, China,<xref rid="bib1" ref-type="bibr"><sup>1</sup></xref> and in June 2012, the first case of MERS died at a hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Both zoonotic diseases remain on the World Health Organization (WHO) list of blueprint priority diseases because they remain global threats to global public health security.<xref rid="bib2" ref-type="bibr"><sup>2</sup></xref> This review focuses on the historical, epidemiologic, and clinical features of SARS.</p></sec><sec id="sec3"><title>Historical</title><p id="p0060">Before 2003, only 2 CoVs, human CoV 229E (HCoV-229E) and HCoV-OC43, were known to cause human disease. These manifest with mild symptoms like the common cold in adults and with more severe disease in infants, the elderly, and the immunosuppressed. In November 2002, unusual cases of “atypical pneumonia” of unknown cause occurred in Foshan City, Guangdong province, in China, where many health care workers became infected.<xref rid="bib1" ref-type="bibr"><sup>1</sup></xref> The infection was brought to Hong Kong on February 21, 2003, by a physician who had looked after similar cases of atypical pneumonia in mainland China, leading to subsequent outbreaks of severe pneumonia in Hong Kong and labeled by WHO as “severe acute respiratory syndrome” on March 15, 2003.<xref rid="bib3" ref-type="bibr">3</xref>, <xref rid="bib4" ref-type="bibr">4</xref>, <xref rid="bib5" ref-type="bibr">5</xref> Several months elapsed and several hundred cases of SARS were observed before SARS-CoV was identified. A novel β CoV (SARS-CoV) of lineage B was confirmed as the cause of the atypical pneumonia cases on March 22, 2003.<xref rid="bib4" ref-type="bibr"><sup>4</sup></xref> The SARS-CoV epidemic spread to 29 countries and regions, and it was evident that the global public health, medical, and scientific communities were not adequately prepared for the emergence of SARS. Chains of human-to-human transmission occurred in Toronto in Canada, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, Chinese Taipei, Singapore, and Hanoi, Viet Nam. The history of the SARS epidemic was short and WHO declared the end of the SARS epidemic in July 2003. There were a total of 8096 SARS cases (which included 774 deaths)<xref rid="bib4" ref-type="bibr"><sup>4</sup></xref> reported from 29 countries and regions.<xref rid="bib5" ref-type="bibr"><sup>5</sup></xref><xref rid="fig1" ref-type="fig">Fig. 1</xref>shows the geographic map of distribution of SARS cases.<fig id="fig1"><label>Fig. 1</label><caption><p>Global distribution of SARS.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="gr1_lrg"></graphic></fig></p><p id="p0065">During the epidemic, SARS caused major disruptions to international air travel, and had a major impact on the health services and business in affected countries.<xref rid="bib6" ref-type="bibr"><sup>6</sup></xref> Since July 2003, there were 4 occasions when SARS has reappeared, 3 of these were attributed to breaches in laboratory biosafety in Singapore, Taipei, and Beijing, where 7 cases were associated with 1 chain of transmission and with hospital spread. The fourth incident in Guangdong province, China, resulted in 4 sporadic community-acquired cases over a 66-week period from December 2003 to January 2004. Three cases had been exposed to animals or environmental sources. There was no further community transmission.</p></sec><sec id="sec4"><title>Virology</title><p id="p0070">Coronaviruses (order <italic>Nidovirales,</italic> family <italic>Coronaviridae</italic>, subfamily <italic>Coronavirinae</italic>) are a group of enveloped, positive-sense, single-stranded, highly diverse RNA viruses that are further divided into 4 genera: α, β, γ, and δ.<xref rid="bib7" ref-type="bibr"><sup>7</sup></xref> CoVs may cause diseases of varying severity in different systems in humans and other animal species. In March 2003, a novel group 2b β CoV was confirmed as the causative agent responsible for SARS-CoV infection.<xref rid="bib4" ref-type="bibr">4</xref>, <xref rid="bib8" ref-type="bibr">8</xref>, <xref rid="bib9" ref-type="bibr">9</xref> The genome sequence of the SARS-CoV did not bear close relationship to any of the previously identified CoVs.<xref rid="bib10" ref-type="bibr">10</xref>, <xref rid="bib11" ref-type="bibr">11</xref></p><p id="p0075">SARS-CoV genome consists of 5ʹ methylated caps and 3ʹ polyadenylated tails. The partially overlapping 5ʹ terminal open reading frame 1a/b (ORF1a/b) is within the 5ʹ two-thirds of the CoV genome and encodes the large replicase polyprotein 1a (pp1a) and pp1ab. These polyproteins are cleaved by 3C-like serine protease and papain-like cysteine protease to produce nonstructural proteins, such as RNA polymerase and helicase, which are important enzymes involved in the transcription and replication of CoVs. The 3ʹ one-third of the CoV genome encodes the structural proteins (spike [S], envelope [E], membrane [M], and nucleocapsid [N]), which are important for virus-cell receptor binding and assembly of virion, and other accessory proteins and nonstructural proteins that may have immunomodulatory effects.<xref rid="bib7" ref-type="bibr"><sup>7</sup></xref></p></sec><sec id="sec5"><title>Host reservoir</title><p id="p0080">Data from a retrospective serology study done in Guangzhou in southern China, suggested that the SARS-CoV might have transmitted from animal species to humans in the wet market, because a high sero-prevalence (16.7%) was found among asymptomatic wild animal salesmen.<xref rid="bib12" ref-type="bibr"><sup>12</sup></xref> A highly similar variant of SARS-CoV was detected in palm civets at an animal market located in Shenzhen.<xref rid="bib13" ref-type="bibr"><sup>13</sup></xref> Masked palm civets were then assumed to be accountable for the transmission of SARS-CoV to humans because 30% of wild animal handlers were found to have positive serology against SARS-CoV infection compared with 1% of controls in Guangdong province.<xref rid="bib13" ref-type="bibr"><sup>13</sup></xref> In addition, up to 39% of SARS-CoV cases that arose in the early stage of the outbreak were associated with a history of exposure to animal markets.<xref rid="bib14" ref-type="bibr"><sup>14</sup></xref> This assumption was further enhanced by an epidemiology linkage in 3 of the 4 patients to indirect or direct contact with palm civets during the sporadic outbreaks of SARS-CoV infection that occurred in Guangzhou in December 2003 and January 2004.<xref rid="bib15" ref-type="bibr">15</xref>, <xref rid="bib16" ref-type="bibr">16</xref></p><p id="p0085">Subsequently, however, Chinese horseshoe bats were found to carry SARS-like CoVs in 2005,<xref rid="bib17" ref-type="bibr">17</xref>, <xref rid="bib18" ref-type="bibr">18</xref> with a high degree of nucleotide sequence similarity (88%–92%) to human or civet cat isolates, suggesting that bats could well have been the natural source of an early ancestor of SARS-CoV. It remains uncertain as to whether an intermediate mammalian host is involved before human transmission.</p></sec><sec id="sec6"><title>Pathogenesis</title><p id="p0090">The pathogenesis of SARS is complex, and not fully defined because multiple factors govern the wide-ranging clinical manifestations from mild to severe disease.<xref rid="bib19" ref-type="bibr"><sup>19</sup></xref> Apart from the respiratory tract, SARS-CoV can infect several organs and cell types during the course of the disease, including intestinal mucosal cells, renal tubular epithelial cells, neurons, and cells of the lymphoid and reticuloendothelial system.<xref rid="bib19" ref-type="bibr"><sup>19</sup></xref></p><sec id="sec6.1"><title>Entry into Host Cells and Pathology</title><p id="p0095">SARS-CoV invades humans through the respiratory tract as the entry site,<xref rid="bib20" ref-type="bibr"><sup>20</sup></xref> and infection occurs in 3 steps: receptor binding, conformational changes in S glycoprotein, and cathepsin L proteolysis within endosomes.<xref rid="bib21" ref-type="bibr"><sup>21</sup></xref> Entry of SARS-CoV is mediated by angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), a metallopeptidase that is expressed on many human organ tissues, as the host functional receptor.<xref rid="bib22" ref-type="bibr"><sup>22</sup></xref> ACE2 is present abundantly in the epithelia of human lungs and small intestine,<xref rid="bib23" ref-type="bibr"><sup>23</sup></xref> but the presence of ACE2 may not be the sole requirement for SARS-CoV tropism. One example is that, despite the abundant expression of ACE2 in vascular endothelial cells and intestinal smooth muscle cells, SARS-CoV was not detected in these cells, whereas it was found in colonic enterocytes and hepatocytes without ACE2 expression.<xref rid="bib23" ref-type="bibr">23</xref>, <xref rid="bib24" ref-type="bibr">24</xref></p></sec><sec id="sec6.2"><title>Histology</title><p id="p0100">Several autopsies of patients with SARS showed the predominant pathologic finding as diffuse alveolar damage (DAD). Lung histopathology in patients with SARS included DAD, loss of cilia, squamous metaplasia, denudation of bronchial epithelia, giant-cell infiltrate, with a marked increase in macrophages in the alveoli and the interstitium. ACE2 may contribute to the development of DAD. SARS-CoV infections and the S glycoprotein of the SARS-CoV could reduce ACE2 expression. In the mouse model, injection of SARS-CoV S glycoprotein worsened acute lung injury (ALI) in vivo that could be reduced by blocking the renin-angiotensin pathway.<xref rid="bib25" ref-type="bibr"><sup>25</sup></xref> In addition, overexpression of SARS-CoV proteins such as 3a and 7a, which were expressed in the lungs and intestinal tissues of patients with SARS, could induce apoptosis in vitro.<xref rid="bib26" ref-type="bibr">26</xref>, <xref rid="bib27" ref-type="bibr">27</xref></p><p id="p0105">Splenic atrophy of the white pulp, hemophagocytosis, hyaline membranes, and secondary bacterial pneumonia were observed.<xref rid="bib28" ref-type="bibr">28</xref>, <xref rid="bib29" ref-type="bibr">29</xref> Lesions resembling cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP) in subpleural regions were also seen.<xref rid="bib30" ref-type="bibr"><sup>30</sup></xref> Extensive expression of SARS-CoV antigen in type I pneumocytes in cynomolgus macaques experimentally infected with SARS-CoV was noted at day 4, suggesting that type I pneumocytes might be the early primary target for SARS-CoV infection.<xref rid="bib31" ref-type="bibr"><sup>31</sup></xref> Diarrhea was present in up to 70% of SARS cases.<xref rid="bib24" ref-type="bibr">24</xref>, <xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr">32</xref> In specimens obtained by colonoscopy or postmortem examination, active viral replication was noted within the small and large intestine with minimal architectural disruption. SARS-CoV infection was confirmed by viral culture of these specimens, while SARS-CoV RNA was detected in the stool specimens for almost 10 weeks after illness onset.<xref rid="bib24" ref-type="bibr"><sup>24</sup></xref> The presence of diarrhea and mortality were associated with a higher nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV viral load on day 10 after illness onset.<xref rid="bib33" ref-type="bibr"><sup>33</sup></xref></p></sec><sec id="sec6.3"><title>Immune Responses and Immunopathology</title><p id="p0110">While innate and acquired immune responses enable containment of virus and mild disease, cytokine dysregulation, viral cytopathic effects, downregulation of lung ACE 2, abnormal immune responses, and autoimmune mechanisms may lead to more severe disease and death, disease progression in SARS may be related to activation of T-helper (Th1) cell-mediated immunity and hyperinnate inflammatory response.<xref rid="bib28" ref-type="bibr">28</xref>, <xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr">32</xref> Marked increases in the Th1 and inflammatory cytokines (interferon-γ [IFN-γ], interleukin-1 [IL-1], IL-6, and IL-12) were noted for more than 2 weeks after illness onset in a study of 20 adults with SARS-CoV infection, together with marked increases in chemokines such as Th1 chemokine IFN-γ-inducible protein-10 (IP-10), neutrophil chemokine IL-8, and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1).<xref rid="bib34" ref-type="bibr"><sup>34</sup></xref> In mice infected with SARS-CoV, T cells played an important role in SARS-CoV clearance, whereas a reduced T-cell response contributed to severe disease.<xref rid="bib35" ref-type="bibr"><sup>35</sup></xref> In another study of mice infected with SARS-CoV, robust virus replication accompanied by delayed type I IFN (IFN-I) response was observed orchestrating inflammatory responses and lung immunopathology with reduced survival, while early administration of IFN-I ameliorated immunopathology. This delayed IFN-I signaling was thought to promote the accumulation of pathogenic inflammatory monocyte-macrophages, leading to elevated lung cytokine/chemokine levels, vascular leakage, and impaired virus-specific T-cell responses, whereas genetic ablation of the IFN-αβ receptor or inflammatory monocyte-macrophage depletion protected mice from fatal infection, without affecting viral load.<xref rid="bib36" ref-type="bibr"><sup>36</sup></xref></p><p id="p0115">In addition, Toll-like receptors (TLR) signaling through the TIR domain-containing adapter-inducing INF-β (TRIF) adaptor protein might play a role in protecting mice from lethal SARS-CoV disease based on a study of the innate responses in mice.<xref rid="bib37" ref-type="bibr"><sup>37</sup></xref> TLR3(−/−), TLR4(−/−), and TRIF-related adapted molecule [TRAM](−/−) mice were more prone to SARS-CoV infection than wild-type mice, although there was only transient weight loss without mortality. In contrast, mice deficient in the TLR3/TLR4 adaptor TRIF were highly susceptible to SARS-CoV infection, with marked weight loss, more pathologic conditions of the lung, higher viral titers, impaired lung function, and mortality. In TRIF(−/−) mice infected with SARS-CoV, distinct changes in inflammation occurred including excess infiltration of neutrophils and inflammatory cells that correlated with increased pathologic conditions of other known causes of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Aberrant proinflammatory cytokines, chemokines, and INF-stimulated gene signaling programs were observed following infection of TRIF(−/−) mice that resembled those seen in human patients with poor clinical outcome following SARS-CoV infection. These findings suggest the importance of TLR adaptor signaling in generating a balanced protective innate immune response to highly pathogenic CoV infections.<xref rid="bib37" ref-type="bibr"><sup>37</sup></xref> In addition, SARS-CoV M protein may function as a cytosolic pathogen-associated molecular pattern to stimulate IFN-β production by activating a TLR-related TRAF3-independent signaling cascade.<xref rid="bib38" ref-type="bibr"><sup>38</sup></xref></p><p id="p0120">A case-control study conducted in Chinese patients with SARS-CoV infection and healthy controls has shown that genetic variants of IL-12 receptor B1 (IL12RB1) predispose to SARS-CoV infection.<xref rid="bib39" ref-type="bibr"><sup>39</sup></xref> Another case-control study has shown that mannose-binding lectin (MBL), a key molecule in innate immunity that functions as an ante-antibody before specific antibody response, contributes to the first-line host defense against SARS-CoV, and that MBL deficiency is a predisposing factor to SARS-CoV infection.<xref rid="bib40" ref-type="bibr"><sup>40</sup></xref></p><p id="p0125">In macaques infected with SARS-CoV, there is evidence that anti-spike immunoglobulin G (IgG) causes severe ALI by altering macrophage inflammation-resolving response in infected lungs. In acutely infected macaques, there was functional polarization of alveolar macrophages, demonstrating wound-healing and proinflammatory characteristics simultaneously. However, the presence of S-IgG before clearance of virus aborted wound-healing responses and promoted production of IL-8 and MCP1, with recruitment of proinflammatory monocytes/macrophages. Interestingly, the sera of patients who had succumbed to SARS-CoV infection enhanced SARS-CoV-induced MCP1 and IL-8 production by human monocyte-derived wound-healing macrophages, whereas blockade of the Fc-γ receptor reduced such effects. The findings reveal a mechanism responsible for virus-mediated ALI and define a pathologic consequence of viral-specific antibody response, in addition to providing some insight on a potential target for treatment of SARS-CoV.<xref rid="bib41" ref-type="bibr"><sup>41</sup></xref></p></sec></sec><sec id="sec7"><title>Epidemiology and disease transmission</title><sec id="sec7.1"><title>Discovery and Spread</title><p id="p0130">In a chest hospital in Guangzhou city, a retrospective study of 55 patients hospitalized with atypical pneumonia between January 24 and February 18, 2003, showed a positive culture of SARS-CoV in the nasopharyngeal aspirates of 3 patients, and positive serology to SARS-CoV in 48 patients (87%). The genetic sequence of the virus isolated from patients in Guangdong was found subsequently to be prototypical of the SARS-CoV found in affected areas around the world.<xref rid="bib42" ref-type="bibr"><sup>42</sup></xref></p><p id="p0135">The index case for the major SARS-CoV outbreak in Hong Kong was a 64-year-old male renal physician, who traveled from the Guangdong province on February 21, 2003, to Hong Kong.<xref rid="bib2" ref-type="bibr">2</xref>, <xref rid="bib4" ref-type="bibr">4</xref> SARS-CoV was transmitted to at least 16 patrons of Hotel M where he stayed on the 9th floor. The renal physician subsequently died of severe pneumonia a few days later at a hospital near the hotel.<xref rid="bib28" ref-type="bibr"><sup>28</sup></xref> Within a few weeks, catalyzed by the speed of international air travel, the infected hotel patrons spread SARS-CoV to 29 countries/regions.<xref rid="bib4" ref-type="bibr">4</xref>, <xref rid="bib43" ref-type="bibr">43</xref> The main mode of spread of SARS-CoV seems to be through close contact with an infected person and transmitted via respiratory droplets or contact with fomite.<xref rid="bib44" ref-type="bibr"><sup>44</sup></xref></p></sec><sec id="sec7.2"><title>Transmission in Hospitals</title><p id="p0140">A super-spreading event at the Prince of Wales Hospital (PWH) in Hong Kong highlighted the nosocomial transmission potential of SARS-CoV infection. A 26-year-old man (and visitor who had stayed on the 9th floor of Hotel M), who was admitted to a general medical ward 8A of the hospital with fever and pneumonia on March 4, 2003,<xref rid="bib45" ref-type="bibr">45</xref>, <xref rid="bib46" ref-type="bibr">46</xref> led to 138 subjects (including previously healthy health care workers) contracting the disease within a 2-week period after exposure. An overcrowded medical ward environment, inadequate air changes in the hospital ward, and the administration of nebulized salbutamol to the index patient via a jet nebulizer, for its mucociliary clearance effects, seem to have contributed to this super-spreading event.<xref rid="bib45" ref-type="bibr">45</xref>, <xref rid="bib46" ref-type="bibr">46</xref> SARS-CoV was detected in respiratory tract secretions, urine, feces, and tears of some patients with SARS-CoV infection.<xref rid="bib44" ref-type="bibr">44</xref>, <xref rid="bib47" ref-type="bibr">47</xref> Computational fluid dynamics analysis in conjunction with investigation of the temporal-spatial pattern of spread of SARS-CoV infection among in-patients on the affected medical ward 8A, implicated airborne transmission.<xref rid="bib48" ref-type="bibr"><sup>48</sup></xref> A multiagent modeling analysis of 1744 scenarios was used to examine the contribution by different modes of transmission in the ward 8A outbreak and found that SARS-CoV most likely had spread via the combined long-range airborne and fomite routes, while fomites played a nonnegligible role in the transmission.<xref rid="bib49" ref-type="bibr"><sup>49</sup></xref></p><p id="p0145">In Toronto, SARS-CoV was found on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing of environmental air samples taken from a hospital room occupied by a patient with SARS-CoV infection, as well as from conventional surface swabs taken from a bed table, a patient’s television remote control, and a medication refrigerator door at a nurses’ station.<xref rid="bib50" ref-type="bibr"><sup>50</sup></xref> The possibility of airborne transmission as indicated by the data emphasizes that it is imperative to take appropriate respiratory protection in addition to strict surface hygiene practices. <xref rid="tbox1" ref-type="boxed-text">Box 1</xref>shows the key timeline of spread of SARS-CoV infection from China to Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Canada via Hong Kong.<xref rid="bib51" ref-type="bibr"><sup>51</sup></xref><xref rid="tbox2" ref-type="boxed-text">Box 2</xref>summarizes the risk factors for nosocomial transmission and super-spreading events of SARS-CoV infection.<xref rid="bib52" ref-type="bibr">52</xref>, <xref rid="bib53" ref-type="bibr">53</xref><boxed-text id="tbox1"><label>Box 1</label><caption><title>Important timeline of spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection from China to Canada, Vietnam, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Singapore via Hong Kong51</title></caption><p id="p0270"><list list-type="simple" id="olist0010"><list-item id="u0045"><p id="p0275">November 16, 2002<list list-type="simple" id="ulist0015"><list-item id="u0050"><label>•</label><p id="p0280">First known case of atypical pneumonia in Foshan City, Guangdong province, China, but cause not identified until much later.</p></list-item></list></p></list-item><list-item id="u0055"><p id="p0285">February 11, 2003<list list-type="simple" id="ulist0020"><list-item id="u0060"><label>•</label><p id="p0290">WHO received reports from the Chinese Ministry of Health of an outbreak of acute respiratory syndrome with 300 cases and 5 deaths in Guangdong province.</p></list-item></list></p></list-item><list-item id="u0065"><p id="p0295">February 21, 2003<list list-type="simple" id="ulist0025"><list-item id="u0070"><label>•</label><p id="p0300">A 64-year-old medical doctor from Zhongshan University in Guangzhou (Guangdong province) arrived in Hong Kong to attend a wedding and was a guest on the ninth floor of Hotel M (room 911).</p></list-item></list></p></list-item><list-item id="u0075"><p id="p0305">February 22, 2003<list list-type="simple" id="ulist0030"><list-item id="u0080"><label>•</label><p id="p0310">The Guangdong doctor was admitted to the intensive care unit at the Kwong Wah Hospital in Hong Kong with respiratory failure (he had previously treated patients with atypical pneumonia in Guangdong). He warned medical staff that he might have contracted a “very virulent disease,” with onset of symptoms on February 15, 2003.</p></list-item></list></p></list-item><list-item id="u0085"><p id="p0315">February 26, 2003<list list-type="simple" id="ulist0035"><list-item id="u0090"><label>•</label><p id="p0320">A 48-year-old Chinese-American businessman was admitted to the French Hospital in Hanoi with a 3-day history of fever and respiratory symptoms. He traveled to Hong Kong on February 17, departed for Hanoi on February 23, and fell ill there. Shortly before his departure from Hong Kong, he had stayed on the ninth floor of the Hotel M, in a room across the hall from the Guangdong doctor.</p></list-item></list></p></list-item><list-item id="u0095"><p id="p0325">March 1, 2003<list list-type="simple" id="ulist0040"><list-item id="u0100"><label>•</label><p id="p0330">A 26-year-old woman was admitted to a hospital in Singapore with respiratory symptoms. A resident of Singapore, she was a guest on the ninth floor of the Hotel M in Hong Kong from February 21 to 25.</p></list-item></list></p></list-item><list-item id="u0105"><p id="p0335">March 4, 2003<list list-type="simple" id="ulist0045"><list-item id="u0110"><label>•</label><p id="p0340">The Guangdong doctor died of atypical pneumonia at Kwong Wah Hospital in Hong Kong.</p></list-item></list></p></list-item><list-item id="u0115"><p id="p0345">March 5, 2003<list list-type="simple" id="ulist0050"><list-item id="u0120"><label>•</label><p id="p0350">In Hanoi, the Chinese-American businessman, in a stable but critical condition, was air medevaced to the Princess Margaret Hospital in Hong Kong. Seven health care workers who had cared for him in Hanoi became ill.</p></list-item><list-item id="u0125"><label>•</label><p id="p0355">A 78-year-old Toronto woman, who had checked out of the Hotel M in Hong Kong on February 23, died at Toronto’s Scarborough Grace Hospital. Five members of her family were infected and admitted to the hospital. Her son, aged 43, fell ill on February 27, 2003, and was subsequently admitted to a community hospital on March 7, 2003, leading to a major nosocomial outbreak. Subsequent chains of disease transmissions resulted in numerous hospital outbreaks that involved 257 people.</p></list-item></list></p></list-item><list-item id="u0130"><p id="p0360">March 7, 2003<list list-type="simple" id="ulist0055"><list-item id="u0135"><label>•</label><p id="p0365">Health care workers at Hong Kong’s Prince of Wales Hospital started to complain of respiratory tract infection, progressing to pneumonia. All had an identifiable link with ward 8A.</p></list-item></list></p></list-item><list-item id="u0140"><p id="p0370">March 8, 2003<list list-type="simple" id="ulist0060"><list-item id="u0145"><label>•</label><p id="p0375">In Taiwan, the source of SARS-CoV infection was a 54-year-old merchant who returned to Taipei via Hong Kong after visiting Guangdong on February 5, 2003. By February 25, 2003, he had developed fever, myalgia, and dry cough but was not hospitalized until March 8, 2003.</p></list-item></list></p></list-item><list-item id="u0150"><p id="p0380">March 12, 2003<list list-type="simple" id="ulist0065"><list-item id="u0155"><label>•</label><p id="p0385">WHO issued a global alert about cases of severe atypical pneumonia following mounting reports of spread among staff at hospitals in Hong Kong and Hanoi.</p></list-item><list-item id="u0160"><label>•</label><p id="p0390">At the French Hospital in Hanoi, 26 staff had symptoms. Of these, 25 had either pneumonia or acute respiratory syndrome, and 5 were in critical condition. The hospital was closed to new admissions.</p></list-item><list-item id="u0165"><label>•</label><p id="p0395">Hong Kong health authorities formally reported an outbreak of an unidentified flu-like illness among hospital staff at the Prince of Wales Hospital. As of midnight March 11, 50 health care workers had been screened; 23 were found to have febrile illness, and 8 showed early chest radiographic signs of pneumonia. A 26-year-old man, who had visited an acquaintance staying on the ninth floor of the Hotel M from February 15 to 23, was shown to be the source of this hospital outbreak following subsequent epidemiologic investigation.</p></list-item></list></p></list-item><list-item id="u0170"><p id="p0400">March 13, 2003<list list-type="simple" id="ulist0070"><list-item id="u0175"><label>•</label><p id="p0405">The Ministry of Health in Singapore reported 3 cases of atypical pneumonia in young women who had recently returned to Singapore after traveling to Hong Kong. All had stayed on the ninth floor of the Hotel M in late February.</p></list-item></list></p></list-item><list-item id="u0180"><p id="p0410">March 15, 2003<list list-type="simple" id="ulist0075"><list-item id="u0185"><label>•</label><p id="p0415">WHO issued a travel advisory as evidence mounted that SARS was spreading by air travel along international routes. WHO named the mysterious illness after its symptoms: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and declared it “a worldwide health threat.”</p></list-item></list></p></list-item><list-item id="u0190"><p id="p0420">March 26, 2003<list list-type="simple" id="ulist0080"><list-item id="u0195"><label>•</label><p id="p0425">The arrival of an infected resident of the Amoy Gardens in Hong Kong to Taiwan on March 26, 2003, led to an escalation of SARS-CoV cases in Taiwan from mid-April 2003. Subsequent phylogenetic analysis of both Taiwan and Hong Kong outbreaks revealed the same strain of virus.</p></list-item></list></p></list-item><list-item id="u0200"><p id="p0430">April 28, 2003<list list-type="simple" id="ulist0085"><list-item id="u0205"><label>•</label><p id="p0435">In Hanoi, there was a reported total of 63 cases of SARS-CoV infection before the outbreak was declared to be over on April 28, 2003</p></list-item></list></p></list-item><list-item id="u0210"><p id="p0440">May 5, 2003<list list-type="simple" id="ulist0090"><list-item id="u0215"><label>•</label><p id="p0445">The SARS-CoV outbreak in Singapore was characterized by rapid nosocomial transmission involving a large number of health care workers (97 out of 238 probable SARS cases [41%]) and several super-spreading events. Transmission of SARS was finally brought to an end, with no new cases after May 5, 2003.</p></list-item></list></p></list-item><list-item id="u0220"><p id="p0450">May 14, 2003<list list-type="simple" id="ulist0095"><list-item id="u0225"><label>•</label><p id="p0455">Toronto was initially removed from the WHO list of areas with recent local SARS transmission and there was a province-wide scaling back of SARS control measures, such as fever surveillance and monitoring of respiratory symptoms in existing in-patients and visitors. However, 1 month after the SARS-CoV outbreak was thought to have ended, another surge of cases arose in a Toronto rehabilitation hospital involving health care workers, visitors, and patients who had been exposed to hospitalized patients with undiagnosed SARS-CoV infection.</p></list-item></list></p></list-item><list-item id="u0230"><p id="p0460">July 2, 2003<list list-type="simple" id="ulist0100"><list-item id="u0235"><label>•</label><p id="p0465">Toronto was finally free from local transmission.</p></list-item></list></p></list-item><list-item id="u0240"><p id="p0470">5 July, 2003<list list-type="simple" id="ulist0105"><list-item id="u0245"><label>•</label><p id="p0475">It was finally announced by WHO that the transmission chain of SARS-CoV in Taiwan was broken, bringing an end to the SARS-CoV epidemic.</p></list-item></list></p></list-item></list></p><attrib><italic>From</italic> WHO. Update 95-SARS: Chronology of a serial killer. Accessed 10 Jan 2016. Available at: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.who.int/csr/don/2003_07_04/en" id="intref0030">http://www.who.int/csr/don/2003_07_04/en</ext-link>; with permission.</attrib></boxed-text><boxed-text id="tbox2"><label>Box 2</label><caption><title>Risk factors of nosocomial transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection</title></caption><p id="p0480"><list list-type="simple" id="olist0015"><list-item id="o0010"><label>a.</label><p id="p0485">Independent risk factors of super-spreading nosocomial outbreaks of SARS<xref rid="bib52" ref-type="bibr"><sup>52</sup></xref>:<list list-type="simple" id="ulist0110"><list-item id="u0250"><label>•</label><p id="p0490">Performance of resuscitation (OR = 3.81; 95% CI, 1.04–13.87; <italic>P</italic> = .04).</p></list-item><list-item id="u0255"><label>•</label><p id="p0495">Staff working while experiencing symptoms (OR = 10.55; 95% CI, 2.28–48.87; <italic>P</italic> = .003)</p></list-item><list-item id="u0260"><label>•</label><p id="p0500">Patients with SARS requiring oxygen therapy at least 6 L/min (OR = 4.30; 95% CI, 1.00–18.43; <italic>P</italic> = .05)</p></list-item><list-item id="u0265"><label>•</label><p id="p0505">Patients with SARS requiring noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (OR = 11.82; 95% CI, 1.97–70.80; <italic>P</italic> = .007)</p></list-item><list-item id="u0270"><label>•</label><p id="p0510">Minimum distance between beds <1 m (OR = 6.98; 95% CI, 1.68–28.75; <italic>P</italic> = .008)</p></list-item><list-item id="u0275"><label>•</label><p id="p0515">Washing or changing facilities for staff (OR = 0.12; 95% CI, 0.02–0.97; <italic>P</italic> = .05)</p></list-item></list></p></list-item><list-item id="o0015"><label>b.</label><p id="p0520">Respiratory procedures associated with increased risk of transmission to health care workers.<xref rid="bib53" ref-type="bibr"><sup>53</sup></xref><list list-type="simple" id="olist0020"><list-item id="u0280"><p id="p0525">Procedures reported to present an increased risk of transmission included (n, pooled OR [95% CI]):<list list-type="simple" id="ulist0115"><list-item id="u0285"><label>•</label><p id="p0530">Tracheal intubation (n = 4 cohorts; 6.6 [2.3, 18.9], and n = 4 case-controls; 6.6 [4.1, 10.6]);</p></list-item><list-item id="u0290"><label>•</label><p id="p0535">Noninvasive ventilation (n = 2 cohorts; OR = 3.1 [1.4, 6.8]);</p></list-item><list-item id="u0295"><label>•</label><p id="p0540">Tracheotomy (n = 1 case-control; 4.2 [1.5, 11.5]);</p></list-item><list-item id="u0300"><label>•</label><p id="p0545">Manual ventilation before intubation (n = 1 cohort; OR = 2.8 [1.3, 6.4]).</p></list-item></list></p></list-item></list></p></list-item></list></p><attrib><italic>Adapted from</italic> Yu IT, Xie ZH, Tsoi KK, et al. Why did outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome occur in some hospital wards but not in others? Clin Infect Dis 2007;44:1017–1025; and Tran K, Cimon K, Severn M, et al. Aerosol generating procedures and risk of transmission of acute respiratory infections to healthcare workers: a systematic review. PLoS One 2012;7:e35797.</attrib></boxed-text></p></sec><sec id="sec7.3"><title>Community Transmission</title><p id="p0150">Opportunistic airborne transmission seems to have been responsible for a major community outbreak of SARS-CoV infection involving more than 300 people in Hong Kong, in a private residential complex, the Amoy Gardens.<xref rid="bib54" ref-type="bibr">54</xref>, <xref rid="bib55" ref-type="bibr">55</xref> The spread of SARS-CoV and creation of infectious aerosols that moved upward through the warm airshaft of the apartment building may have been because of dried up U-bend drainage on a bathroom floor and backflow of contaminated sewage (from a SARS patient with renal failure and diarrhea), in combination with negative pressure generated by the toilet exhaust fans. It was suggested via computational fluid dynamics modeling that long-range airborne transmission (>200 m) to nearby buildings was possibly caused by wind flow dispersion.<xref rid="bib56" ref-type="bibr"><sup>56</sup></xref></p></sec><sec id="sec7.4"><title>Other Routes of Transmission</title><p id="p0155">The main mode of SARS-CoV transmission is via respiratory droplets, although the potential of transmission by opportunistic airborne routes via aerosol-generating procedures in health care facilities,<xref rid="bib44" ref-type="bibr">44</xref>, <xref rid="bib50" ref-type="bibr">50</xref> and environmental factors, as in the case of Amoy Gardens, is known.<xref rid="bib54" ref-type="bibr">54</xref>, <xref rid="bib55" ref-type="bibr">55</xref>, <xref rid="bib56" ref-type="bibr">56</xref> Other transmission routes leading to the spread of SARS-CoV included feco-oral (presence of virus in stool, and diarrhea as a symptom)<xref rid="bib54" ref-type="bibr">54</xref>, <xref rid="bib55" ref-type="bibr">55</xref>, <xref rid="bib56" ref-type="bibr">56</xref> and fomite on surfaces (virus found on surfaces in hospitals treating patients with SARS-CoV).<xref rid="bib56" ref-type="bibr"><sup>56</sup></xref> The SARS-CoV that spread worldwide was due to a single virus strain.<xref rid="bib57" ref-type="bibr"><sup>57</sup></xref></p></sec></sec><sec id="sec8"><title>Clinical manifestations</title><p id="p0160">A wide range of clinical manifestations are seen in patients with SARS from mild, moderate, to severe and rapidly progressive and fulminant disease.</p><sec id="sec8.1"><title>Incubation Period</title><p id="p0165">The estimated mean incubation period of SARS-CoV infection was 4.6 days (95% CI, 3.8–5.8 days)<xref rid="bib58" ref-type="bibr"><sup>58</sup></xref> and 95% of illness onset occurred within 10 days.<xref rid="bib59" ref-type="bibr"><sup>59</sup></xref> The mean time from symptom onset to hospitalization was between 2 and 8 days, but was shorter toward the later phase of the epidemic. The mean time from symptom onset to need for invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) and to death was 11 and 23.7 days, respectively.<xref rid="bib60" ref-type="bibr"><sup>60</sup></xref></p></sec><sec id="sec8.2"><title>Symptoms</title><p id="p0170">The major clinical features of SARS are fever, rigors, chills, myalgia, dry cough, malaise, dyspnea, and headache. Sore throat, sputum production, rhinorrhea, nausea, vomiting, and dizziness are less common (<xref rid="tbl1" ref-type="table">Table 1</xref>).<xref rid="bib3" ref-type="bibr">3</xref>, <xref rid="bib45" ref-type="bibr">45</xref>, <xref rid="bib61" ref-type="bibr">61</xref>, <xref rid="bib62" ref-type="bibr">62</xref>, <xref rid="bib63" ref-type="bibr">63</xref> Watery diarrhea was present in 40% to 70% of patients with SARS and tended to occur about 1 week after illness onset.<xref rid="bib24" ref-type="bibr">24</xref>, <xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr">32</xref> SARS-CoV was detected in the serum and cerebrospinal fluid of 2 patients complicated by status epilepticus.<xref rid="bib64" ref-type="bibr">64</xref>, <xref rid="bib65" ref-type="bibr">65</xref> Elderly patients with SARS-CoV infection might present with poor appetite, a decrease in general well-being, fracture as a result of fall,<xref rid="bib66" ref-type="bibr"><sup>66</sup></xref> and confusion, but some elderly subjects might not be able to mount a febrile response. In contrast, SARS-CoV infection in children aged less than 12 years was generally mild, whereas infection in teenagers resembled that in adults.<xref rid="bib67" ref-type="bibr"><sup>67</sup></xref> There was no mortality among young children and teenagers.<xref rid="bib58" ref-type="bibr">58</xref>, <xref rid="bib67" ref-type="bibr">67</xref> SARS-CoV infection acquired during pregnancy carried a case fatality rate of 25% and was associated with a high incidence of spontaneous miscarriage, preterm delivery, and intrauterine growth retardation without perinatal SARS-CoV infection among the newborn infants.<xref rid="bib68" ref-type="bibr"><sup>68</sup></xref><table-wrap position="float" id="tbl1"><label>Table 1</label><caption><p>Clinical features of severe acute respiratory syndrome on presentation</p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th>Symptom</th><th>% of Patients with Symptoms</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Persistent fever >38°C</td><td>99–100</td></tr><tr><td>Nonproductive cough</td><td>57–75</td></tr><tr><td>Myalgia</td><td>45–61</td></tr><tr><td>Chills/rigor</td><td>15–73</td></tr><tr><td>Headache</td><td>20–56</td></tr><tr><td>Dyspnea</td><td>40–42</td></tr><tr><td>Malaise</td><td>31–45</td></tr><tr><td>Nausea and vomiting</td><td>20–35</td></tr><tr><td>Diarrhea</td><td>20–25</td></tr><tr><td>Sore throat</td><td>13–25</td></tr><tr><td>Dizziness</td><td>4.2–43</td></tr><tr><td>Sputum production</td><td>4.9–29</td></tr><tr><td>Rhinorrhea</td><td>2.1–23</td></tr><tr><td>Arthralgia</td><td>10.4</td></tr></tbody></table><attrib><italic>Data from</italic> Refs.<xref rid="bib3" ref-type="bibr">3</xref>, <xref rid="bib45" ref-type="bibr">45</xref>, <xref rid="bib61" ref-type="bibr">61</xref>, <xref rid="bib62" ref-type="bibr">62</xref>, <xref rid="bib63" ref-type="bibr">63</xref></attrib></table-wrap></p><p id="p0175">Asymptomatic SARS-CoV infection was uncommon in 2003; a meta-analysis had shown overall sero-prevalence rates of 0.1% (95% CI, 0.02–0.18) for the general population and 0.23% for health care workers (95% CI, 0.02–0.45) in comparison with healthy blood donors, others from the general community, or patients without SARS-CoV infection recruited from the health care setting (0.16%, 95% CI, 0–0.37).<xref rid="bib69" ref-type="bibr"><sup>69</sup></xref></p><p id="p0180">The clinical course of patients with SARS-CoV infection seemed to manifest in different stages.<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr">32</xref>, <xref rid="bib43" ref-type="bibr">43</xref>, <xref rid="bib45" ref-type="bibr">45</xref>, <xref rid="bib70" ref-type="bibr">70</xref> In the first week of illness of SARS-CoV infection, many patients presented with fever, dry cough, myalgia, and malaise that might improve despite the presence of lung consolidation and rising viral loads on serial samples. During the second week, many patients experienced recurrence of fever, worsening consolidation, and respiratory failure, while about 20% of patients progressed to ARDS requiring IMV.<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr">32</xref>, <xref rid="bib43" ref-type="bibr">43</xref>, <xref rid="bib45" ref-type="bibr">45</xref> Peaking of viral load on day 10 of illness<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr"><sup>32</sup></xref> corresponded temporally to peaking of the extent of consolidation radiographically,<xref rid="bib71" ref-type="bibr"><sup>71</sup></xref> and a maximal risk of nosocomial transmission, particularly to health care workers.<xref rid="bib72" ref-type="bibr"><sup>72</sup></xref></p></sec></sec><sec id="sec9"><title>Diagnosis and investigations</title><sec id="sec9.1"><title>Laboratory Diagnosis</title><p id="p0185">The detection rates for SARS-CoV infection in 2003 using reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) on nasopharyngeal specimens, urine, stool, and blood are shown in <xref rid="tbl2" ref-type="table">Table 2</xref>.<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr">32</xref>, <xref rid="bib73" ref-type="bibr">73</xref>, <xref rid="bib74" ref-type="bibr">74</xref>, <xref rid="bib75" ref-type="bibr">75</xref> It is important to collect a combination of upper respiratory (nasal, pharyngeal, and nasopharyngeal), lower respiratory (higher yield because of higher viral levels, eg, sputum, tracheal aspirate, and bronchoalveolar lavage), blood, and fecal specimens to maximize the chance of detection. A single negative test in an upper respiratory specimen does not rule out the diagnosis. Because viral kinetics demonstrated an inverted V-shape curve peaking on day 10 of illness with progressive decrease in rates of viral shedding from nasopharynx, stool, and urine (which might persist up to day 21), clinical progression during the second week was thought to be related to immune-mediated lung injury.<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr"><sup>32</sup></xref><table-wrap position="float" id="tbl2"><label>Table 2</label><caption><p>Diagnostic tests for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus</p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th>RT-PCR</th><th>Detection Rates</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Nasopharyngeal aspirate</td><td>Conventional RT-PCR: 32% day 3; 68% day 14<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr"><sup>32</sup></xref><break></break>Second-generation with real-time quantitative RT-PCR assay: 80% during first 3 d<xref rid="bib73" ref-type="bibr"><sup>73</sup></xref></td></tr><tr><td>Stool<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr"><sup>32</sup></xref></td><td>97% day 14 of illness</td></tr><tr><td>Urine<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr"><sup>32</sup></xref></td><td>42% day 15 of illness</td></tr><tr><td>Real-time quantitative serum SARS-CoV RNA<xref rid="bib74" ref-type="bibr">74</xref>, <xref rid="bib75" ref-type="bibr">75</xref></td><td>80% day 1; 75% day 7; 45% day 14</td></tr><tr><td>Serology IgG seroconversion to SARS-CoV<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr"><sup>32</sup></xref></td><td>15% day 15; 60% day 21; >90% day 28</td></tr></tbody></table><attrib><italic>Data from</italic> Refs.<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr">32</xref>, <xref rid="bib73" ref-type="bibr">73</xref>, <xref rid="bib74" ref-type="bibr">74</xref>, <xref rid="bib75" ref-type="bibr">75</xref></attrib></table-wrap></p><p id="p0190">Specimens for viral culture require processing in biosafety level 3 facilities, but the results take too long to assist acute clinical management. Serologic diagnosis is largely retrospective and useful for epidemiologic surveillance purposes. A more robust IgG response was observed in severe SARS-CoV infections as reflected by higher IgG levels in patients who required supplemental oxygen, intensive care unit (ICU) admission, those with negative predischarge fecal RT-PCR results, and those with lymphopenia at presentation.<xref rid="bib76" ref-type="bibr"><sup>76</sup></xref> A study in Beijing has shown that, 6 years after SARS-CoV infection, specific IgG Ab to SARS-CoV eventually disappeared and peripheral memory B-cell responses became undetectable in recovered patients with SARS but specific T-cell anamnestic responses could be maintained for at least 6 years.<xref rid="bib77" ref-type="bibr"><sup>77</sup></xref></p><p id="p0195">Absolute lymphopenia (lymphocyte count <1.0 × 10<sup>9</sup>/L) was observed in 98% of cases of SARS-CoV infection, whereas low CD4 and CD8 lymphocyte counts on hospitalization were associated with adverse clinical outcomes.<xref rid="bib78" ref-type="bibr"><sup>78</sup></xref> Liver dysfunction with abnormal alanine transaminases was noted in 29.6% of patients on presentation, but increased to 75.9% of those receiving systemic corticosteroid and ribavirin for treatment of SARS-CoV infection.<xref rid="bib79" ref-type="bibr"><sup>79</sup></xref></p></sec><sec id="sec9.2"><title>Radiologic Features</title><p id="p0200">The radiographic features of SARS-CoV infection were basically nonspecific. About a quarter of patients might have unremarkable chest radiographs initially,<xref rid="bib3" ref-type="bibr">3</xref>, <xref rid="bib45" ref-type="bibr">45</xref>, <xref rid="bib61" ref-type="bibr">61</xref> with nonspecific changes, ranging from normal to peribronchial thickening and ill-defined airspace shadowing (<xref rid="fig2" ref-type="fig">Fig. 2</xref>).<fig id="fig2"><label>Fig. 2</label><caption><p>Chest radiograph of a patient showing opacities at the right lower zone and left mid and lower zones.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="gr2_lrg"></graphic></fig></p><p id="p0205">High-resolution computer tomography (HRCT) of the thorax could detect small parenchymal lesions early.<xref rid="bib80" ref-type="bibr"><sup>80</sup></xref> Common HRCT findings included interlobular septal and intralobular interstitial thickening, consolidation, and ground-glass opacification, predominantly involving peripheral lung fields and lower lobes, with features closely resembling those found in COP<xref rid="bib45" ref-type="bibr">45</xref>, <xref rid="bib80" ref-type="bibr">80</xref> (<xref rid="fig3" ref-type="fig">Fig. 3</xref>). In an ICU case series of critically ill patients, 12% of patients developed pneumo-mediastinum spontaneously, while 20% of patients developed evidence of ARDS over a period of 3 weeks.<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr"><sup>32</sup></xref> Despite the use of lung protective IMV with a low tidal volume, barotrauma occurred in 26% of critically ill cases of SARS-CoV infection, possibly owing to decreased lung compliance.<xref rid="bib81" ref-type="bibr"><sup>81</sup></xref><fig id="fig3"><label>Fig. 3</label><caption><p>Chest tomography of another patient with ground-glass opacity at the anterolateral segment of the left lower lobe.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="gr3_lrg"></graphic></fig></p></sec></sec><sec id="sec10"><title>Prognostic markers and outcome</title><p id="p0210">The prognostic factors associated with a poor outcome (ICU admission or death) in SARS-CoV infection are summarized in <xref rid="tbox3" ref-type="boxed-text">Box 3</xref>.<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr">32</xref>, <xref rid="bib45" ref-type="bibr">45</xref>, <xref rid="bib61" ref-type="bibr">61</xref>, <xref rid="bib62" ref-type="bibr">62</xref>, <xref rid="bib63" ref-type="bibr">63</xref>, <xref rid="bib73" ref-type="bibr">73</xref>, <xref rid="bib74" ref-type="bibr">74</xref>, <xref rid="bib75" ref-type="bibr">75</xref> Infants (preterm or full-term) born to mothers infected with SARS-CoV infection were neither shedding SARS-CoV nor clinically infected in the postnatal period.<xref rid="bib82" ref-type="bibr"><sup>82</sup></xref> The clinical course of SARS-CoV infection in elderly patients, particularly those with comorbidities was typically fulminant and often fatal.<boxed-text id="tbox3"><label>Box 3</label><caption><title>Poor prognostic factors associated with intensive care unit admission and/or deaths in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection</title></caption><p id="p0550"><list list-type="simple" id="ulist0120"><title>Factors</title><list-item id="u0305"><p id="p0555">Advanced age<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr">32</xref>, <xref rid="bib45" ref-type="bibr">45</xref>, <xref rid="bib59" ref-type="bibr">59</xref>, <xref rid="bib62" ref-type="bibr">62</xref>, <xref rid="bib63" ref-type="bibr">63</xref></p></list-item><list-item id="u0310"><p id="p0560">Viral loads: high SARS-CoV viral loads in nasopharyngeal secretions<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr"><sup>32</sup></xref>; high plasma SARS-CoV concentrations<xref rid="bib74" ref-type="bibr">74</xref>, <xref rid="bib75" ref-type="bibr">75</xref></p></list-item><list-item id="u0315"><p id="p0565">Comorbidities: chronic hepatitis B,<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr"><sup>32</sup></xref> diabetes mellitus, or other co-morbid conditions<xref rid="bib61" ref-type="bibr">61</xref>, <xref rid="bib62" ref-type="bibr">62</xref></p></list-item><list-item id="u0320"><p id="p0570">Laboratory markers: high peak lactate dehydrogenase (LDH),<xref rid="bib45" ref-type="bibr"><sup>45</sup></xref> high initial LDH level,<xref rid="bib63" ref-type="bibr"><sup>63</sup></xref> high neutrophil count on presentation,<xref rid="bib45" ref-type="bibr">45</xref>, <xref rid="bib63" ref-type="bibr">63</xref> low counts of CD4 and CD8 at presentation<xref rid="bib78" ref-type="bibr"><sup>78</sup></xref></p></list-item></list></p><attrib><italic>Data from</italic> Refs.<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr">32</xref>, <xref rid="bib45" ref-type="bibr">45</xref>, <xref rid="bib61" ref-type="bibr">61</xref>, <xref rid="bib62" ref-type="bibr">62</xref>, <xref rid="bib63" ref-type="bibr">63</xref>, <xref rid="bib74" ref-type="bibr">74</xref>, <xref rid="bib75" ref-type="bibr">75</xref></attrib></boxed-text></p></sec><sec id="sec11"><title>Antiviral therapy and other potential treatments</title><sec id="sec11.1"><title>Ribavirin</title><p id="p0215">Ribavirin, a nucleoside analog, was widely prescribed for treatment of SARS-CoV infection in 2003.<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr">32</xref>, <xref rid="bib45" ref-type="bibr">45</xref>, <xref rid="bib61" ref-type="bibr">61</xref>, <xref rid="bib62" ref-type="bibr">62</xref> Nevertheless, ribavirin monotherapy had minimal activity against SARS-CoV with concentrations that could be achieved in the clinical setting, and it led to significant hemolysis in many patients.<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr">32</xref>, <xref rid="bib45" ref-type="bibr">45</xref>, <xref rid="bib83" ref-type="bibr">83</xref></p></sec><sec id="sec11.2"><title>Antiviral Therapy</title><p id="p0220">The efficacy of antiviral agents including ribavirin, protease inhibitors, and INF that were used to treat patients with SARS-CoV infection in 2003 is summarized in <xref rid="tbl3" ref-type="table">Table 3</xref>.<xref rid="bib61" ref-type="bibr">61</xref>, <xref rid="bib83" ref-type="bibr">83</xref>, <xref rid="bib84" ref-type="bibr">84</xref>, <xref rid="bib85" ref-type="bibr">85</xref>, <xref rid="bib86" ref-type="bibr">86</xref> Because of lack of prospective randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial data, none of these therapies have proven benefit. Good supportive care remains the mainstay of treatment of SARS-CoV infection.<table-wrap position="float" id="tbl3"><label>Table 3</label><caption><p>Agents applied for treatment of humans with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection in 2003</p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th>Agents</th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Ribavirin</td><td>Ribavirin given at 1.2 g three times a day orally for 2 wk resulted in a drop in hemoglobin of >2 g/dL from baseline in 59% of patients, with evidence of hemolysis documented in 36%.<xref rid="bib83" ref-type="bibr"><sup>83</sup></xref><break></break>Based on a higher dosage of ribavirin for treating hemorrhagic fever virus, patients with SARS-CoV infection in Toronto developed more toxicity, including elevated transaminases and bradycardia.<xref rid="bib61" ref-type="bibr"><sup>61</sup></xref></td></tr><tr><td>Protease inhibitor</td><td>Two retrospective, matched cohort studies have compared the clinical outcome of patients who received protease inhibitors (lopinavir 400 mg/ritonavir 100 mg) in addition to ribavirin, either as initial therapy within 5 d of onset of symptoms or as rescue therapy after pulsed methylprednisolone treatment for worsening respiratory symptoms; these were compared with historical controls who received ribavirin alone as initial antiviral therapy.<xref rid="bib84" ref-type="bibr">84</xref>, <xref rid="bib85" ref-type="bibr">85</xref><break></break>The addition of lopinavir/ritonavir as initial therapy was associated with reduced overall death rate (2.3%) and intubation rate (0%), in comparison with a matched cohort that received standard treatment (15.6% and 11%, respectively)<xref rid="bib85" ref-type="bibr"><sup>85</sup></xref>; there was also evidence of reduction in viral loads. Other beneficial effects included a reduction in methylprednisolone use and less nosocomial infections.<xref rid="bib84" ref-type="bibr"><sup>84</sup></xref><break></break>However, the subgroup that had received lopinavir/ritonavir as rescue therapy fared no better than the matched cohort, and received a higher mean dose of methylprednisolone.<xref rid="bib86" ref-type="bibr"><sup>86</sup></xref> The improved clinical outcome in patients who received lopinavir/ritonavir as part of the initial therapy is supported by the observations that both peak (9.6 μg/mL) and trough (5.5 μg/mL) serum concentrations of lopinavir could inhibit the virus.</td></tr><tr><td>Interferon</td><td>In an uncontrolled study in Toronto, interferon-alfacon-1 given within 5 d of illness resulted in improved oxygen saturation, more rapid resolution of radiographic lung opacities, and lower rates of intubation (11.1% vs 23.1%) and death (0.0% vs 7.7%); however, the sample size was small (n = 9 vs 13) and confounded by the concomitant use of systemic corticosteroid.<xref rid="bib86" ref-type="bibr"><sup>86</sup></xref></td></tr></tbody></table><attrib><italic>Data from</italic> Refs.<xref rid="bib61" ref-type="bibr">61</xref>, <xref rid="bib83" ref-type="bibr">83</xref>, <xref rid="bib84" ref-type="bibr">84</xref>, <xref rid="bib85" ref-type="bibr">85</xref>, <xref rid="bib86" ref-type="bibr">86</xref></attrib></table-wrap></p></sec><sec id="sec11.3"><title>Systemic Corticosteroids</title><p id="p0225">Systemic corticosteroids, in the form of intravenous pulse methylprednisolone (MP) was given to some patients with SARS-CoV infection for several reasons.<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr">32</xref>, <xref rid="bib45" ref-type="bibr">45</xref>, <xref rid="bib62" ref-type="bibr">62</xref>, <xref rid="bib63" ref-type="bibr">63</xref>, <xref rid="bib83" ref-type="bibr">83</xref> Firstly, there was an assumption that clinical progression of pneumonia and respiratory failure in association with peaking of SARS-CoV viral load might be mediated by the host inflammatory response.<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr">32</xref>, <xref rid="bib71" ref-type="bibr">71</xref> Also, in many patients there were HRCT<xref rid="bib3" ref-type="bibr">3</xref>, <xref rid="bib45" ref-type="bibr">45</xref>, <xref rid="bib80" ref-type="bibr">80</xref> and histologic features of COP, which was a steroid-responsive condition.<xref rid="bib30" ref-type="bibr"><sup>30</sup></xref> Systemic corticosteroids significantly reduced IL-8, MCP-1, and IP-10 concentrations from 5 to 8 days after treatment in 20 adults with SARS-CoV infection.<xref rid="bib34" ref-type="bibr"><sup>34</sup></xref> In addition, in patients with fatal SARS-CoV infection, there was evidence of hemo-phagocytosis in the lungs,<xref rid="bib28" ref-type="bibr"><sup>28</sup></xref> attributed to cytokine dysregulation.<xref rid="bib87" ref-type="bibr"><sup>87</sup></xref> Intervention with systemic corticosteroids was thus given to modulate these immune responses.</p><p id="p0230">Although there was clinical improvement in some patients with resolution of fever and lung consolidation following treatment with intravenously pulsed MP,<xref rid="bib3" ref-type="bibr">3</xref>, <xref rid="bib83" ref-type="bibr">83</xref> a retrospective cohort analysis in Hong Kong showed that the use of pulsed MP was actually associated with an increased risk of 30-day mortality (adjusted odds ratio [OR] 26.0; 95% CI, 4.4–154.8).<xref rid="bib88" ref-type="bibr"><sup>88</sup></xref> In addition, prolonged use of systemic corticosteroid therapy could increase the risk of nosocomial infections, such as disseminated fungal disease,<xref rid="bib89" ref-type="bibr"><sup>89</sup></xref> metabolic derangements, psychosis, and osteonecrosis.<xref rid="bib90" ref-type="bibr"><sup>90</sup></xref> A randomized controlled trial has shown that plasma SARS-CoV RNA concentrations in the second and third weeks of illness were higher in patients given initial hydrocortisone (n = 10) than those given normal saline as control (n = 7) during the early clinical course of the illness. The data suggest that systemic corticosteroids given early in the course of SARS-CoV infection might prolong viremia.<xref rid="bib91" ref-type="bibr"><sup>91</sup></xref> A systematic review concluded that systemic corticosteroid treatment was not associated with definite benefits and was potentially harmful.<xref rid="bib92" ref-type="bibr"><sup>92</sup></xref></p></sec><sec id="sec11.4"><title>Convalescent Plasma/Passive Immunotherapy</title><p id="p0235">Convalescent plasma, donated mostly by health care workers who had fully recovered from SARS-CoV infection, seemed to be clinically useful for treating other patients with progressive SARS-CoV infection.<xref rid="bib93" ref-type="bibr">93</xref>, <xref rid="bib94" ref-type="bibr">94</xref> In a study comparing patients with SARS-CoV infection who did and did not receive convalescent plasma, 19 patients who received such therapy had higher survival rate (100% vs 66.2%) and higher discharge rate (77.8% vs 23.0%) compared with 21 controls.<xref rid="bib94" ref-type="bibr"><sup>94</sup></xref> An exploratory post hoc meta-analysis of studies of SARS-CoV infection and severe influenza showed a significant reduction in the pooled odds of mortality following convalescent plasma versus placebo or no treatment (OR = 0.25; 95% CI, 0.14–0.45).<xref rid="bib95" ref-type="bibr"><sup>95</sup></xref> Early administration of convalescent plasma seemed to be more effective, because, among 80 patients with SARS-CoV infection who had been given convalescent plasma at PWH, the discharge rate at day 22 was 58.3% for patients (n = 48) treated within 14 days of illness onset versus 15.6% for those (n = 32) treated beyond 14 days.<xref rid="bib93" ref-type="bibr"><sup>93</sup></xref> In the absence of well-proven and effective antiviral therapy, convalescent plasma and human monoclonal antibody are worth further study for treatment of SARS-CoV if it returns.</p></sec></sec><sec id="sec12"><title>Prevention</title><sec id="sec12.1"><title>Vaccines</title><p id="p0240">The S protein of SARS-CoV plays an important role in mediating viral infection via receptor binding and membrane fusion between the virion and the host cell, and is a major epitope. An adenoviral-based vaccine could induce strong SARS-CoV-specific immune responses in rhesus macaques, and hold promise for development of a protective vaccine against SARS-CoV.<xref rid="bib96" ref-type="bibr"><sup>96</sup></xref> Other investigators reported that the S gene DNA vaccine could induce the production of specific IgG antibody against SARS-CoV efficiently in mice, with a seroconversion ratio of 75% after 3 doses of immunization,<xref rid="bib97" ref-type="bibr"><sup>97</sup></xref> whereas viral replication was reduced by more than 6 orders of magnitude in the lungs of mice vaccinated with S plasmid DNA expression vectors, and protection was mediated by a humoral immune mechanism.<xref rid="bib98" ref-type="bibr"><sup>98</sup></xref> Recombinant S protein exhibited antigenicity and receptor-binding ability, whereas synthetic peptides eliciting specific antibodies against SARS-CoV S protein might provide another approach for further developing SARS vaccine.</p></sec><sec id="sec12.2"><title>General Preventive Measures</title><p id="p0245">Prevention of transmission is crucial for managing this highly infectious disease. The primary mode of transmission of SARS-CoV infection is through direct contact and exposure to infectious respiratory droplets, or fomites, and it is therefore necessary to maintain good personal and environmental hygiene, and to implement stringent contact and droplet precautions among health care workers. To prevent community transmission, contact tracing, quarantine/isolation of close contacts, and public education are important measures.<xref rid="bib44" ref-type="bibr"><sup>44</sup></xref> Between December 16, 2003, and January 30, 2004, 4 new cases of SARS-CoV infection emerged in Guangdong, and a link was established between humans and small wild animals. The Guangdong government and Department of Public Health took public health measures and implemented strict controls over the wildlife market, including banning the rearing, transport, slaughter, sales, and food processing of small wild mammals and civet cats.<xref rid="bib99" ref-type="bibr"><sup>99</sup></xref></p></sec><sec id="sec12.3"><title>Hospital Infection Control Measures</title><p id="p0250">Nosocomial transmission was a hallmark of SARS-CoV infection in 2003, with 1706 out of 8096 (21%) of patients with SARS globally being health care workers.<xref rid="bib5" ref-type="bibr"><sup>5</sup></xref> A plausible reason is that viral loads reached their highest levels 10 days from disease onset, when the patient was most symptomatic and dyspneic, and close observation/treatment of these patients became necessary for the health care workers.<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr"><sup>32</sup></xref> Different medical wards should be designated for patient triage (for undifferentiated fever), confirmed SARS cases, and other patients in whom SARS has been ruled out. In the event of a late detection of a nosocomial outbreak, hospital closure is required to contain onward disease transmission. However, outbreaks that are detected early and limited to few patients, may be managed by isolating the infected patients in place or, alternatively, relocating the affected patients to a designated location. Early case detection followed by isolation should ideally be performed in negative pressure isolation rooms if available. Implementing droplet precautions and contact precautions seemed adequate to reduce the risk of infection after general exposure to patients with mild SARS-CoV infection. Airborne precautions (hand hygiene, gown, gloves, N95 masks, and eye protection) should be implemented if aerosol-generating procedures are to be undertaken.<xref rid="bib100" ref-type="bibr"><sup>100</sup></xref></p></sec></sec><sec id="sec13"><title>Summary</title><p id="p0255">The SARS epidemic demonstrated that novel highly pathogenic viruses crossing the animal-human barrier remain a major threat to global health security. SARS posed a major challenge for global public health services because of its sudden appearance, rapid spread, and disappearance. The knowledge and lessons learnt from SARS-CoV epidemiology, mode of transmission, clinical course, complications, clinical management, predictors of poor outcome, and infection control have been invaluable.</p><p id="p0260">Although no major outbreaks have occurred since the last reported SARS cases involving laboratory personnel in Singapore and Taiwan, and 4 residents in Guangdong, an epidemic is possible at any time. 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