Enhanced MERS coronavirus surveillance of travelers from the Middle East to England

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1562-1564

  Thomas, Helen Lucy ^a   Zhao, Hongxin ^a   Green, Helen K ^a   Boddington, Nicola L ^a   Carvalho, Carlos F A ^a   Osman, Husam K ^a   Sadler, Carol ^a   Zambon, Maria ^a   Bermingham, Alison ^a   Pebody, Richard G ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CORONAVIRUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MERS CORONAVIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHINOVIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HEALTH SURVEY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TRAVEL; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906215687     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2009.140817     Document Type: Article

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