Infection control and prevention practices implemented to reduce transmission risk of Middle East respiratory syndrome-coronavirus in a tertiary care institution in Saudi Arabia

BACKGROUND: Transmission of Middle East respiratory syndrome-coronavirus (MERS-CoV) among health care workers (HCWs) and patients has been documented with mortality rate approximating 36%. We propose advanced infection control measures (A-IC) used in conjunction with basic infection control measures...

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Autores principales: Butt, Taimur S., Koutlakis-Barron, Irene, AlJumaah, Suliman, AlThawadi, Sahar, AlMofada, Saleh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7115292/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26922892
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2016.01.004

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