Viral shedding and environmental cleaning in middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection

Infection and Chemotherapy

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 252-255

  Song, Joon Young ^a,b   Cheong, Hee Jin ^a,b   Choi, Min Joo ^a   Jeon, Ji Ho ^a   Kang, Seong Hee ^a   Jeong, Eun Ju ^a   Yoon, Jin Gu ^a   Lee, Saem Na ^a   Kim, Sung Ran ^a   Noh, Ji Yun ^a,b   Kim, Woo Joo ^a,b  

^a Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Coronavirus; Middle East respiratory syndrome; Virus shedding

Indexed keywords

HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM; LOPINAVIR PLUS RITONAVIR; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2A; RIBAVIRIN; SODIUM CHLORITE; VIRUS RNA;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISINFECTION; ENVELOPE GENE; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OPEN READING FRAME; PNEUMONIA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT DURATION; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VIRUS SHEDDING; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VOMITING;

EID: 84957640395     PISSN: 20932340     EISSN: 20926448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3947/ic.2015.47.4.252     Document Type: Article

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