The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)

The Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is a novel lethal zoonotic disease of humans caused by the MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV). Although MERS is endemic to the Middle East, travelers have exported MERS-CoV on return to their home countries. Clinical manifestations range from mild to severe acute...

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Autores principales: Azhar, Esam I., Hui, David S.C., Memish, Ziad A., Drosten, Christian, Zumla, Alimuddin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7127753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31668197
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idc.2019.08.001
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author Azhar, Esam I.
Hui, David S.C.
Memish, Ziad A.
Drosten, Christian
Zumla, Alimuddin
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description The Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is a novel lethal zoonotic disease of humans caused by the MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV). Although MERS is endemic to the Middle East, travelers have exported MERS-CoV on return to their home countries. Clinical manifestations range from mild to severe acute respiratory disease and death. The elderly, immunocompromised, and those with chronic comorbid liver, lung, and hepatic conditions have a high mortality rate. There is no specific treatment. Person-to-person spread causes hospital and household outbreaks, and thus improved compliance with internationally recommended infection control protocols and rapid implementation of infection control measures are required.
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spelling pubmed-71277532020-04-08 The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Azhar, Esam I. Hui, David S.C. Memish, Ziad A. Drosten, Christian Zumla, Alimuddin Infect Dis Clin North Am Article The Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is a novel lethal zoonotic disease of humans caused by the MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV). Although MERS is endemic to the Middle East, travelers have exported MERS-CoV on return to their home countries. Clinical manifestations range from mild to severe acute respiratory disease and death. The elderly, immunocompromised, and those with chronic comorbid liver, lung, and hepatic conditions have a high mortality rate. There is no specific treatment. Person-to-person spread causes hospital and household outbreaks, and thus improved compliance with internationally recommended infection control protocols and rapid implementation of infection control measures are required. Elsevier Inc. 2019-12 2019-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7127753/ /pubmed/31668197 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idc.2019.08.001 Text en © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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