Health care worker contact with MERS patient, Saudi Arabia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2148-2151

  Hall, Aron J ^a   Tokars, Jerome I ^a   Badreddine, Samar A ^b   Saad, Ziad Bin ^c   Furukawa, Elaine ^c   Masri, Malak Al ^c   Haynes, Lia M ^a   Gerber, Susan I ^a   Kuhar, David T ^a   Miao, Congrong ^a   Trivedi, Suvang U ^a   Pallansch, Mark A ^a   Hajjeh, Rana ^a   Memish, Ziad A ^c  

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

^b DR SOLIMAN FAKEEH HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRBORNE INFECTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MICRONEUTRALIZATION ASSAY; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; PHARYNGITIS; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROLOGY; SMOKING; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSMISSION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922933903     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2012.141211     Document Type: Article

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