title: Acute Respiratory Infections (Oxford Respiratory Medicine Library)
author: Wei Shen Lim
description: <br>Wei Shen Lim is a respiratory physician who combines a busy clinical workload with a research interest in respiratory infections. He has been involved in the development of national guidelines in the area of respiratory infections including guidelines in relation to pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza, and was Chairman of the Guidelines Committee for the British Thoracic Society Guidelines for the Management of Community Acquired Pneumonia in Adults 2009. He is currently Chairman of the British Thoracic Society Respiratory Infection Specialist Advisory Group.<br>
zlib_text: Articles
  www.thelancet.com   Vol 395   April 4, 2020 
  1137
  First known person-to-person transmission of severe acute 
  respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the USA
  Isaac Ghinai*, Tristan D McPherson*, Jennifer C Hunter, Hannah L Kirking, Demian Christiansen, Kiran Joshi, Rachel Rubin, Shirley Morales-Estrada, 
  Stephanie R Black, Massimo Pacilli, Marielle J Fricchione, Rashmi K Chugh, Kelly A Walblay, N Seema Ahmed, William C Stoecker, Nausheen F Hasan, 
  Deborah P Burdsall, Heather E Reese, Megan Wallace, Chen Wang, Darcie Moeller, Jacqueline Korpics, Shannon A Novosad, Isaac Benowitz, 
  Max W Jacobs, Vishal S Dasari, Megan T Patel, Judy Kauerauf, E Matt Charles, Ngozi O Ezike, Victoria Chu, Claire M Midgley, Melissa A Rolfes, 
  Susan I Gerber, Xiaoyan Lu, Stephen Lindstrom, Jennifer R Verani, Jennifer E Layden, for the Illinois COVID-19 Investigation Team†
  Summary
  Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome 
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