Middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infections in two returning travellers in the Netherlands, May 2014

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2014, Pages

  Kraaij Dirkzwager, M ^a   Timen, A ^a   Dirksen, K ^b   Gelinck, L ^c   Leyten, E ^c   Groeneveld, P ^d   Jansen, C ^c   Jonges, M ^a   Raj, S ^e   Thurkow, I ^f   van Gageldonk Lafeber, R ^a   van der Eijk, A ^e   Koopmans, M ^a,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b Municipality of the Hague   (Netherlands)

^c MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

^d ISALA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f Public Health Service Ijsselland   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; TROPONIN T;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTACT EXAMINATION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; COUGHING; CRACKLE; DYSPNEA; EMPORIATRICS; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG EXAMINATION; LUNG INFILTRATE; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; MONITORING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROAT CULTURE;

AGED; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; NETHERLANDS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAUDI ARABIA; SYNDROME; TRAVEL;

EID: 84901687660     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2014.19.21.20817     Document Type: Article

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