Exportations of symptomatic cases of mers-cov infection to countries outside the middle east

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 723-725

  Carias, Cristina ^a,b   O’Hagan, Justin J ^a,b   Jewett, Amy ^b   Gambhir, Manoj ^b,c   Cohen, Nicole J ^b   Haber, Yoni ^b   Pesik, Nicki ^b   Swerdlow, David L ^b  

^a Ihrc Inc   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MIDDLE EAST; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; RESIDENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CAMEL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EUROPE; FEMALE; MALE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CAMELUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84961201053     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2204.150976     Document Type: Article

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