Medusa's ugly head again: From SARS to MERS-CoV

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 160, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 432-433

  Perl, Trish M ^a   McGeer, Allison ^b   Price, Connie Savor ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EDITORIAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CORONAVIRIDAE INFECTION; HYPERCAPNIA; INFECTION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEPSIS;

CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

EID: 84896525176     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/m14-0096     Document Type: Editorial

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