Health Care Worker Contact with MERS Patient, Saudi Arabia

To investigate potential transmission of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) to health care workers in a hospital, we serologically tested hospital contacts of the index case-patient in Saudi Arabia, 4 months after his death. None of the 48 contacts showed evidence of MERS-CoV in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Hall, Aron J., Tokars, Jerome I., Badreddine, Samar A., Saad, Ziad Bin, Furukawa, Elaine, Al Masri, Malak, Haynes, Lia M., Gerber, Susan I., Kuhar, David T., Miao, Congrong, Trivedi, Suvang U., Pallansch, Mark A., Hajjeh, Rana, Memish, Ziad A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2014
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4257796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25418612
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2012.141211
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Sumario:To investigate potential transmission of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) to health care workers in a hospital, we serologically tested hospital contacts of the index case-patient in Saudi Arabia, 4 months after his death. None of the 48 contacts showed evidence of MERS-CoV infection.

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