Middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus: A case-control study of hospitalized patients

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 160-165

  Al Tawfiq, Jaffar A ^a,b   Hinedi, Kareem ^a   Ghandour, Jihad ^a   Khairalla, Hanan ^a   Musleh, Samir ^a   Ujayli, Alaa ^a   Memish, Ziad A ^c,d  

^a DHAHRAN HEALTH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d ALFAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

case control

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; COUGHING; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOPTYSIS; HOSPITAL BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MORTALITY; MYALGIA; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SORE THROAT; TACHYPNEA; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VOMITING; WHEEZING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CLINICAL MEDICINE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL MEDICINE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901755321     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu226     Document Type: Article

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