Scope and extent of healthcare-associated Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus transmission during two contemporaneous outbreaks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2017

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 79-88

  Alanazi, Khalid H ^a   Killerby, Marie E ^b,c   Biggs, Holly M ^b   Abedi, Glen R ^b   Jokhdar, Hani ^a   Alsharef, Ali A ^a   Mohammed, Mutaz ^a   Abdalla, Osman ^a   Almari, Aref ^a   Bereagesh, Samar ^a   Tawfik, Sameh ^a   Alresheedi, Husain ^a   Alhakeem, Raafat F ^a   Hakawi, Ahmed ^a   Alfalah, Haitham ^c   Amer, Hala ^c,d   Thornburg, Natalie J ^b   Tamin, Azaibi ^b   Trivedi, Suvang ^e   Tong, Suxiang ^b   Lu, Xiaoyan ^b   Queen, Krista ^b   Li, Yan ^b   Sakthivel, Senthilkumar K ^f   Tao, Ying ^b   Zhang, Jing ^b   Paden, Clinton R ^b   Al Abdely, Hail M ^a   Assiri, Abdullah M ^a   Gerber, Susan I ^b   Watson, John T ^b   more..

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^c KING SAUD MEDICAL CITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^e Ihrc Inc   (United States)

^f BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOME; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAUDI ARABIA; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY;

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASE SEQUENCE; CONTACT TRACING; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 85059273335     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2018.290     Document Type: Article

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