Risk Factors for Transmission of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection During the 2015 Outbreak in South Korea | Zendy

Seung Woo Kim | Zendy; Jung Wan Park | Zendy; Hee-Dong Jung | Zendy; Jeong-Sun Yang | Zendy; Yong-Shik Park | Zendy; Chang Lee | Zendy; Kyung Min Kim | Zendy; Keon-Joo Lee | Zendy; Donghyok Kwon | Zendy; Young Joo Hur | Zendy; Bo Youl Choi | Zendy; Moran Ki | Zendy

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Risk Factors for Transmission of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection During the 2015 Outbreak in South Korea

Author(s) -

Seung Woo Kim,

Jung Wan Park,

Hee-Dong Jung,

Jeong-Sun Yang,

Yong-Shik Park,

Chang Lee,

Kyung Min Kim,

Keon-Joo Lee,

Donghyok Kwon,

Young Joo Hur,

Bo Youl Choi,

Moran Ki

Publication year - 2016

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/ciw768

Subject(s) - medicine , middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus , odds ratio , outbreak , transmission (telecommunications) , confidence interval , isolation (microbiology) , pneumonia , epidemiology , logistic regression , middle east respiratory syndrome , covid-19 , virology , disease , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , electrical engineering , engineering

Transmission heterogeneity was observed during the 2015 South Korean outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection. Only 22 of 186 cases transmitted the infection, and 5 super-spreading events caused 150 transmissions. We investigated the risk factors for MERS-CoV transmission.

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