Emerging problems in infectious diseases lessons to learn from mers-cov outbreak in South Korea

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 543-546

  Khan, Adnan ^a,c   Farooqui, Amber ^a,c   Guan, Yi ^a   Kelvin, David J ^a,b,c,d  

^a SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Immunopathology   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory syndrome; ARDS; Korea; Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus; Virus infection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; COUGHING; FEVER; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SOUTH KOREA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

CORONAVIRUS;

CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84936871363     PISSN: 20366590     EISSN: 19722680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.7278     Document Type: Article

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