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Volume 10, Number
2, February 2004
Lack of SARS Transmission
and U.S. SARS Case-Patient
Angela J. Peck,* E. Claire Newbern,*† Daniel R. Feikin,* Elmira T.
Isakbaeva,* Benjamin J. Park,* Jason T. Fehr,‡ Ashley C. LaMonte,* Thong
P. Le,§ Terry L. Burger,¶ Luther V. Rhodes III,¶# Andre Weltman,** Dean
Erdman,* Thomas G. Ksiazek,* Jairam R. Lingappa,* and the SARS Pennsylvania
Case Investigation Team
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Philadelphia
Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ‡Penn State
College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA; §Infectious Diseases
Service, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA; ¶Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health
Network, Allentown and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA; #Allentown Infectious
Diseases Services, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA; and **Pennsylvania Department
of Health, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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; stool RT-PCR; 
; urine RT-PCR, 
; and respiratory RT-PCR,
; A, nasal aspirate;
S, sputum; NP; nasopharyngeal swab; OP, oropharyngeal swab. Black shading
indicates laboratory-positive specimen. Viral cultures of all stools and
respiratory specimens were also performed and were negative.