Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: Quantification of the extent of the epidemic, surveillance biases, and transmissibility

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 50-56

  Cauchemez, Simon ^a   Fraser, Christophe ^a   Van Kerkhove, Maria D ^a   Donnelly, Christl A ^a   Riley, Steven ^a   Rambaut, Andrew ^b   Enouf, Vincent ^c   van der Werf, Sylvie ^c   Ferguson, Neil M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE FATALITY RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MIDDLE EAST; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRAL GENETICS; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84890433761     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(13)70304-9     Document Type: Article

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