Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus on inanimate surfaces: A risk for health care transmission

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1387-1389

  Khan, Raymond M ^a   Al Dorzi, Hasan M ^a   Al Johani, Sameera ^a   Balkhy, Hanan H ^a   Alenazi, Thamer H ^a   Baharoon, Salim ^a   Arabi, Yaseen M ^a  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Environmental cleaning; environmental contamination; infection control; Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS CoV); Saudi Arabia

Indexed keywords

CLEANING; CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; SAUDI ARABIA; TOUCH; ADULT; ATTITUDE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; INTERVIEW; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUARANTINE; SOUTH KOREA; TRUST; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; QUARANTINE; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; TRUST;

EID: 84994085563     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: 15273296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2016.05.006     Document Type: Article

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