Estimating the risk of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) death during the course of the outbreak in the Republic of Korea, 2015 | Zendy

Kenji Mizumoto | Zendy; Masaya Saitoh | Zendy; Gerardo Chowell | Zendy; Yuichiro Miyamatsu | Zendy; Hiroshi Nishiura | Zendy

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Estimating the risk of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) death during the course of the outbreak in the Republic of Korea, 2015

Author(s) -

Kenji Mizumoto,

Masaya Saitoh,

Gerardo Chowell,

Yuichiro Miyamatsu,

Hiroshi Nishiura

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

international journal of infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278

H-Index - 89

eISSN - 1878-3511

pISSN - 1201-9712

DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2015.08.005

Subject(s) - outbreak , middle east respiratory syndrome , medicine , case fatality rate , demography , confidence interval , cluster (spacecraft) , relative risk , epidemiology , pediatrics , disease , covid-19 , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , sociology , computer science , programming language

A large cluster of the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) linked to healthcare setting occurred from May to July 2015 in the Republic of Korea. The present study aimed to estimate the case fatality ratio (CFR) by appropriately taking into account the time delay from illness onset to death. We then compare our estimate against previously published values of the CFR for MERS, i.e., 20% and 40%.

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