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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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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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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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author Hall, Aron J.
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Kuhar, David T.
Miao, Congrong
Trivedi, Suvang U.
Pallansch, Mark A.
Hajjeh, Rana
Memish, Ziad A.
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spelling pubmed-42577962014-12-16 Health Care Worker Contact with MERS Patient, Saudi Arabia 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. Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch 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. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2014-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4257796/ /pubmed/25418612 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2012.141211 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Tokars, Jerome I.
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Saad, Ziad Bin
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Gerber, Susan I.
Kuhar, David T.
Miao, Congrong
Trivedi, Suvang U.
Pallansch, Mark A.
Hajjeh, Rana
Memish, Ziad A.
Health Care Worker Contact with MERS Patient, Saudi Arabia
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title_sort health care worker contact with mers patient, saudi arabia
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url 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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