Hospital-Associated Outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus: A Serologic, Epidemiologic, and Clinical Description
Author(s) -
Mohammad Alabdallat,
Daniel C. Payne,
Sultan Alqasrawi,
Brian Rha,
Rania A. Tohme,
Glen R. Abedi,
Mohannad Al Nsour,
Ibrahim Iblan,
Najwa Jarour,
Noha H. Farag,
Aktham Haddadin,
Tarek Alsanouri,
Azaibi Tamin,
Jennifer L. Harcourt,
David T. Kuhar,
David L. Swerdlow,
Dean D. Erdman,
Mark A. Pallansch,
Lia M. Haynes,
Susan I. Gerber,
Nabil Sabri,
Mulkan Azhari,
Hala Khazali,
Mohammad Al Maayah,
Adel Bilbeisi,
Nataly Dawood,
Bilal Al Zubi,
Jawad Meflih,
Tony Mounds,
Julia Fitzner,
Akram Eltom,
A.R. Mafi,
Congrong Miao,
Hayat Caidi,
Suvang Trivedi,
Shifaq Kamili,
Aron J. Hall,
Aaron T. Curns,
Jessica Moore,
Thị Thu Hương Phạm,
Chris Zimmerman,
Eileen C. Far,
Genessa Giorgi,
Russell Gerber
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciu359
Subject(s) - outbreak , serology , medicine , case fatality rate , middle east respiratory syndrome , attack rate , infection control , epidemiology , pediatrics , transmission (telecommunications) , disease , emergency medicine , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , immunology , intensive care medicine , antibody , covid-19 , electrical engineering , engineering
In April 2012, the Jordan Ministry of Health investigated an outbreak of lower respiratory illnesses at a hospital in Jordan; 2 fatal cases were retrospectively confirmed by real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) to be the first detected cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV).
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