MERS in South Korea and China: A potential outbreak threat?

The Lancet

Volumn 385, Issue 9985, 2015, Pages 2349-2350

  Su, Shuo ^a   Wong, Gary ^b   Liu, Yingxia ^c   Gao, George F ^b   Li, Shoujun ^a,c,d   Bi, Yuhai ^b,c  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^c SHENZHEN THIRD PEOPLE S HOSPITAL   (China)

^d Key Lab of Compreh Prev and Contr for Severe Clin Anim Dis of Guangdong Prov   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAHRAIN; CHINA; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; MEDICAL STAFF; MIDDLE EAST; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QATAR; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SAUDI ARABIA; SOUTH KOREA; TRAVEL; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH; PANDEMIC; TRANSMISSION;

CHINA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT; PANDEMICS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; TRAVEL;

EID: 84930889427     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60859-5     Document Type: Letter

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