Antibody response and disease severity in healthcare worker MERS survivors

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1113-1115

  Alshukairi, Abeer N ^a   Khalid, Imran ^a   Ahmed, Waleed A ^a   Dada, Ashraf M ^a   Bayumi, Daniyah T ^a   Malic, Laut S ^a   Althawadi, Sahar ^a   Ignacio, Kim ^a   Alsalmi, Hanadi S ^a   Al Abdely, Hail M ^b   Wali, Ghassan Y ^a   Qushmaq, Ismael A ^a   Alraddadi, Basem M ^a   Perlman, Stanley ^c  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY ASSESSMENT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; PNEUMONIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; SAUDI ARABIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVOR; VIROLOGY; VIRUS SHEDDING;

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; SAUDI ARABIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVORS; VIRUS SHEDDING;

EID: 84969217904     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2206.160010     Document Type: Article

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