Influenza is more common than Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) among hospitalized adult Saudi patients

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 20, Issue , 2017, Pages 56-60

  Al Tawfiq, Jaffar A ^a,b   Rabaan, Ali A ^a   Hinedi, Kareem ^a  

^a DHAHRAN HEALTH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CAP; Community acquired pneumonia; Influenza; MERS CoV; Middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H1N1); INFLUENZA B; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUDI; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; INFLUENZA; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; SAUDI ARABIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VIROLOGY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 85031771383     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2017.10.004     Document Type: Article

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