Risk of transmission via medical employees and importance of routine infection-prevention policy in a nosocomial outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS): a descriptive analysis from a tertiary care hospital in South Korea

BACKGROUND: In 2015, South Korea experienced an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and our hospital experienced a nosocomial MERS infection. We performed a comprehensive analysis to identify the MERS transmission route and the ability of our routine infection-prevention policy to c...

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Autores principales: Ki, Hyun Kyun, Han, Sang Kuk, Son, Jun Seong, Park, Sang O
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6822455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31666061
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-019-0940-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6822455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31666061
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-019-0940-5

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