Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus not detected in children hospitalized with acute respiratory illness in Amman, Jordan, March 2010 to September 2012

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 678-682

  Khuri Bulos, N ^a,b   Payne, D C ^c   Lu, X ^c   Erdman, D ^c   Wang, L ^a   Faouri, S ^d   Shehabi, A ^b   Johnson, M ^a   Becker, M M ^a   Denison, M R ^a   Williams, J V ^a   Halasa, N B ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d Al Basheer Hospital   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Coronavirus; MERS CoV; Novel; Surveillance; Virus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CORONAVIRUS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALIZED CHILD; HUMAN; JORDAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THROAT CULTURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

CORONAVIRUS;

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; JORDAN; MALE; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84905025404     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12438     Document Type: Article

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