Comparative epidemiology of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in Saudi Arabia and South Korea

Emerging Microbes and Infections

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Chen, Xin ^a   Chughtai, Abrar Ahmad ^a   Dyda, Amalie ^a   Macintyre, Chandini Raina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUDI ARABIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH KOREA; TRAVEL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; CROSS INFECTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HOSPITAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; TRANSMISSION; TRAVEL RELATED DISEASE; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RISK FACTORS; SAUDI ARABIA; TRAVEL-RELATED ILLNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85020378994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22221751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emi.2017.40     Document Type: Article

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