Preliminary epidemiological assessment of MERS-CoV outbreak in South Korea, may to june 2015

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 20, Issue 25, 2015, Pages 1-7

  Cowling, B J ^a   Park, M ^a   Fang, V J ^a   Wu, P ^a   Leung, G M ^a   Wu, J T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84934295654     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2015.20.25.21163     Document Type: Article

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