Broxmeyer L
Med-America Research, Whitestone, NY 11357, USA.
Med Hypotheses. 2003 Aug;61(2):314-7. doi: 10.1016/s0306-9877(03)00195-6.
Recent observations and experimental evidence have purported that a virus causes SARS, but such viruses have been isolated in only less than half of SARS patients in some studies and virologist Vincent Plummer of Winnipeg's National Microbiology Laboratory found that indeed 1 in 5 perfectly healthy Canadians with a history of recent travel to Asia had the virus. Therefore SARS microbiologic origins remain unclear. Outbreaks of multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis and the atypical mycobacteria simulate SARS on clinical, radiologic, epidemiologic, and diagnostic laboratory grounds and it is only logical then to include them in the differential to find a definitive cause and cure for SARS.
最近的观察结果和实验证据表明,一种病毒导致了严重急性呼吸综合征(SARS),但在一些研究中,仅不到一半的SARS患者体内分离出了这种病毒,温尼伯国家微生物实验室的病毒学家文森特·普卢默发现,事实上,每5名近期有亚洲旅行史的完全健康的加拿大人中就有1人携带这种病毒。因此,SARS的微生物起源仍不清楚。耐多药(MDR)结核病和非典型分枝杆菌的暴发在临床、放射学、流行病学和诊断实验室方面与SARS相似,因此,将它们纳入鉴别诊断以找到SARS的确切病因和治疗方法是合乎逻辑的。