Current epidemiological status of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in the world from 1.1.2017 to 17.1.2018: A cross-sectional study

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Mobaraki, Kazhal ^a   Ahmadzadeh, Jamal ^a  

^a URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Case fatality rate; Descriptive epidemiology; Disease outbreak; Emerging diseases; Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE FATALITY RATE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; LABORATORY TEST; LEBANON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OMAN; QATAR; SAUDI ARABIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; VERY ELDERLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; GLOBAL HEALTH; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85065196138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-019-3987-2     Document Type: Article

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