Hospital Outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
Author(s) -
Abdullah M. Assiri,
Allison McGeer,
Trish M. Perl,
Connie Price,
Abdullah A. Al Rabeeah,
Derek A. T. Cummings,
Zaki N Alabdullatif,
Maher Assad,
Abdulmohsen Almulhim,
Hatem Q. Makhdoom,
Hossam Madani,
Rafat F. Alhakeem,
Jaffar A. AlTawfiq,
Matthew Cotten,
Simon J. Watson,
Paul Kellam,
Alimuddin Zumla,
Ziad A. Memish
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa1306742
Subject(s) - medicine , middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus , outbreak , middle east respiratory syndrome , pneumonia , incubation period , pediatrics , confidence interval , medical record , transmission (telecommunications) , index case , hemodialysis , emergency medicine , disease , covid-19 , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , biochemistry , incubation , electrical engineering , engineering , chemistry
In September 2012, the World Health Organization reported the first cases of pneumonia caused by the novel Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). We describe a cluster of health care-acquired MERS-CoV infections.
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