Mortality risk factors for Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, South Korea, 2015

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2088-2090

  Majumder, Maimuna S ^a,b   Kluberg, Sheryl A ^b   Mekaru, Sumiko R ^b   Brownstein, John S ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DEATH; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SOUTH KOREA; VERY ELDERLY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; TRANSMISSION; TRENDS;

ADULT; AGED; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84944586565     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2111.151231     Document Type: Article

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