Unraveling the drivers of MERS-CoV transmission

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 32, 2016, Pages 9081-9086

  Cauchemez, Simon ^a,b   Nouvellet, Pierre ^c   Cori, Anne ^c   Jombart, Thibaut ^c   Garske, Tini ^c   Clapham, Hannah ^d   Moore, Sean ^d   Mills, Harriet Linden ^c   Salje, Henrik ^a,b,d   Collins, Caitlin ^c   Rodriquez Barraquer, Isabel ^d   Rileyd, Steven ^c   Truelove, Shaun ^d   Algarni, Homoud ^e   Alhakeem, Rafat ^e   AlHarbi, Khalid ^e   Turkistani, Abdulhafiz ^e   Aguas, Ricardo J ^c   Cummings, Derek A T ^d,f   Van Kerkhove, Maria D ^a,c   Donnelly, Christl A ^c   Lessler, Justin ^d   Fraser, Christophe ^c   Al Barrak, Ali ^a,e   Ferguson, Neil M ^c   more..

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal reservoir; Epidemic dynamics; Mathematical modeling; Outbreaks; Zoonotic virus

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84982975972     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1519235113     Document Type: Article

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