Middle East respiratory syndrome

The Lancet

Volumn 386, Issue 9997, 2015, Pages 995-1007

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

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ASIA; CAMEL; CASE MANAGEMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INFECTION PREVENTION; MIDDLE EAST; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANDEMIC; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SAUDI ARABIA; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; CHILD; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOGENICITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TRANSMISSION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CAMELS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941413167     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60454-8     Document Type: Review

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