MERS, SARS, and Ebola: The Role of Super-Spreaders in Infectious Disease

Cell Host and Microbe

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 398-401

  Wong, Gary ^a,b   Liu, Wenjun ^a,b   Liu, Yingxia ^c   Zhou, Boping ^c   Bi, Yuhai ^a,b,c   Gao, George F ^a,b,c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c SHENZHEN THIRD PEOPLE S HOSPITAL   (China)

^d CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BAHRAIN; CANADA; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GUINEA; HONG KONG; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LIBERIA; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SAUDI ARABIA; SECONDARY INFECTION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SIERRA LEONE; SINGAPORE; SOUTH KOREA; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; VIET NAM; VIREMIA; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; SARS VIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

EID: 84944255470     PISSN: 19313128     EISSN: 19346069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2015.09.013     Document Type: Note

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