Clinical and laboratory findings of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 160-167

  Hwang, Se Min ^a,b,c   Na, Baeg Ju ^d   Jung, Yoomi ^e   Lim, Hyun Suk ^f   Seo, Jeong Eun ^f   Park, Shin Ae ^f   Cho, Young Soo ^f   Song, Eun Hyang ^f   Seo, Ji Yeon ^f   Kim, Sung Ryul ^f   Lee, Gang Young ^f   Kim, Soon Ja ^f   Park, Young Suk ^f   Seo, Haesook ^c,f  

^a Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   (South Korea)

^b Gyeonggi Provincial Government   (South Korea)

^c Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d Seoul National University Boramae Hospital   (South Korea)

^e Armed Forces Nursing Academy   (South Korea)

^f Seobuk Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMATOCRIT; HOME CARE; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; MONOCYTOSIS; MYALGIA; NEUTROPHILIA; PATIENT ISOLATION; PLATELET COUNT; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA SEVERITY INDEX; QUARANTINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHINORRHEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VOMITING; AGED; BLOOD; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; SOUTH KOREA; SPUTUM; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPUTUM;

EID: 85066482581     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: 18842836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7883/yoken.JJID.2018.187     Document Type: Article

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