Middle East Respiratory Syndrome- advancing the public health and research agenda on MERS- lessons from the South Korea outbreak

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue , 2015, Pages 54-55

  Petersen, Eskild ^a   Hui, David S ^b   Perlman, Stanley ^c   Zumla, Alimuddin ^d  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; VIRUS VACCINE;

CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DISINFECTION; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOUTH KOREA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84931268142     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: 18783511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2015.06.004     Document Type: Editorial

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