Serologic evaluation of MERS screening strategy for healthcare personnel during a hospital-associated outbreak

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 234-238

  Ko, Jae Hoon ^a   Lee, Ji Yeon ^a   Baek, Jin Yang ^b   Seok, Hyeri ^a   Park, Ga Eun ^a   Lee, Ji Yong ^a   Cho, Sun Young ^a   Ha, Young Eun ^a   Kang, Cheol In ^a   Kang, Ji Man ^a   Kim, Yae Jean ^a   Kang, Eun Suk ^a   Kim, So Hyun ^b   Jo, Ik Joon ^a   Chung, Chi Ryang ^a   Hahn, Myong Joon ^a   Müller, Marcel A ^c   Drosten, Christian ^c   Chung, Doo Ryeon ^a,b   Song, Jae Hoon ^a,b   Peck, Kyong Ran ^a   more..

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Asia Pacific Foundation for Infectious Diseases (APFID)   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SEROCONVERSION; SERODIAGNOSIS; VIRAL PLAQUE ASSAY; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; CROSS INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PROCEDURES; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85009892755     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2016.251     Document Type: Conference Paper

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