Comparative Analysis of Eleven Healthcare-Associated Outbreaks of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (Mers-Cov) from 2015 to 2017

Scientific Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Bernard Stoecklin, Sibylle ^a,b   Nikolay, Birgit ^c   Assiri, Abdullah ^d   Bin Saeed, Abdul Aziz ^d,e   Ben Embarek, Peter Karim ^f   El Bushra, Hassan ^d   Ki, Moran ^g   Malik, Mamunur Rahman ^f   Fontanet, Arnaud ^a,h   Cauchemez, Simon ^c   Van Kerkhove, Maria D ^a,f  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b SANTÉ PUBLIQUE FRANCE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^e KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^f WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^g National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

^h University of Paris Cité   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HISTORY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RISK FACTOR; SAUDI ARABIA; SOUTH KOREA; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COMORBIDITY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RISK FACTORS; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 85065757290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-43586-9     Document Type: Article

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