MERS, SARS, and Ebola: The Role of Super-Spreaders in Infectious Disease

Super-spreading occurs when a single patient infects a disproportionate number of contacts. The 2015 MERS-CoV, 2003 SARS-CoV, and to a lesser extent 2014–15 Ebola virus outbreaks were driven by super-spreaders. We summarize documented super-spreading in these outbreaks, explore contributing factors,...

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Autores principales: Wong, Gary, Liu, Wenjun, Liu, Yingxia, Zhou, Boping, Bi, Yuhai, Gao, George F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7128246/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26468744
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2015.09.013
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author Wong, Gary
Liu, Wenjun
Liu, Yingxia
Zhou, Boping
Bi, Yuhai
Gao, George F.
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description Super-spreading occurs when a single patient infects a disproportionate number of contacts. The 2015 MERS-CoV, 2003 SARS-CoV, and to a lesser extent 2014–15 Ebola virus outbreaks were driven by super-spreaders. We summarize documented super-spreading in these outbreaks, explore contributing factors, and suggest studies to better understand super-spreading.
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spelling pubmed-71282462020-04-08 MERS, SARS, and Ebola: The Role of Super-Spreaders in Infectious Disease Wong, Gary Liu, Wenjun Liu, Yingxia Zhou, Boping Bi, Yuhai Gao, George F. Cell Host Microbe Forum Super-spreading occurs when a single patient infects a disproportionate number of contacts. The 2015 MERS-CoV, 2003 SARS-CoV, and to a lesser extent 2014–15 Ebola virus outbreaks were driven by super-spreaders. We summarize documented super-spreading in these outbreaks, explore contributing factors, and suggest studies to better understand super-spreading. Elsevier Inc. 2015-10-14 2015-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7128246/ /pubmed/26468744 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2015.09.013 Text en Copyright © 2015 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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MERS, SARS, and Ebola: The Role of Super-Spreaders in Infectious Disease
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