Assessing the pandemic potential of MERS-CoV

The Lancet

Volumn 382, Issue 9893, 2013, Pages 662-664

  Bauch, Chris T ^a,b   Oraby, Tamer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; CALCULATION; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PANDEMIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUSCEPTIBLE POPULATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84882833784     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61504-4     Document Type: Note

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