Environmental Contamination and Viral Shedding in MERS Patients during MERS-CoV Outbreak in South Korea

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 755-760

  Bin, Seo Yu ^a   Heo, Jung Yeon ^b   Song, Min Suk ^c   Lee, Jacob ^a   Kim, Eun Ha ^c   Park, Su Jin ^c   Kwon, Hyeok Il ^c   Kim, Se Mi ^c   Kim, Young Il ^c   Si, Young Jae ^c   Lee, In Won ^c   Baek, Yun Hee ^c   Choi, Won Suk ^c   Min, Jinsoo ^b   Jeong, Hye Won ^b   Choi, Young Ki ^c  

^a Hallym University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Departments of Dermatology and Internal Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Chungbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Environmental contamination; MERS CoV; Prolonged viral shedding; South Korea; Transmission mode

Indexed keywords

LOPINAVIR PLUS RITONAVIR; PEGINTERFERON; RIBAVIRIN; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BED; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL DEVICE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY DEVICE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROOM VENTILATION; SOUTH KOREA; SPUTUM; SYMPTOM; VERO CELL LINE; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS SHEDDING; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WARD; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA SEQUENCE; FOMITE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; BEDDING AND LINENS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, HOSPITAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; FOMITES; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRUS SHEDDING;

EID: 84960194703     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ1020     Document Type: Article

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