Controlling middle east respiratory syndrome: Lessons learned from severe acute respiratory syndrome

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1761-1762

  Yen, Muh Yong ^a   Schwartz, Jonathan ^b   Wu, Jiunn Shyan Julian ^c   Hsueh, Po Ren ^d  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EMERGENCY WARD; FOMITE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; LETTER; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SOUTH KOREA; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; TAIWAN; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TAIWAN;

EID: 84951960526     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ648     Document Type: Letter

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