Travel implications of emerging coronaviruses: SARS and MERS-CoV

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 422-428

  Al Tawfiq, Jaffar A ^e,f   Zumla, Alimuddin ^a,d   Memish, Ziad A ^a,b,c  

^a Global Centre for Mass Gatherings Medicine   (Saudi Arabia)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^c ALFAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e DHAHRAN HEALTH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^f INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hajj: zoonosis; MERS CoV; SARS CoV; Travel

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL PRODUCT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; FEAR; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERMEDIATE HOST; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE EAST; MIDDLE EAST SYNDROME CORNAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SCREENING TEST; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TRAVEL; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CAMEL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EMPORIATRICS; EPIDEMIC; GOAT; ISLAM; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; SAUDI ARABIA; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CAMELS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GOATS; HUMANS; ISLAM; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; SARS VIRUS; SAUDI ARABIA; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TRAVEL; TRAVEL MEDICINE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84908153808     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2014.06.007     Document Type: Article

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