Interpreting Results from Environmental Contamination Studies of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1142-

  Van Kerkhove, Maria D ^a,b   Peiris, Malik J S ^c   Malik, Mamunur Rahman ^b   Ben Embarek, Peter ^b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c HKU PASTEUR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISINFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; LETTER; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN;

CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS;

EID: 84990955043     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciw478     Document Type: Letter

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