Pilgrims and MERS-CoV: What's the risk?

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Soliman, Tarek ^a   Cook, Alex R ^a,b   Coker, Richard J ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^b YALE NUS COLLEGE   (Singapore)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coronavirus; Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Mass gathering

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ASIA; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; CROWDING (AREA); DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EUROPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MIDDLE EAST; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NORTH AFRICA; REVIEW; SAUDI ARABIA; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TRAVEL; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 84928652437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17427622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12982-015-0025-8     Document Type: Review

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