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The middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus respiratory infection: an emerging infection from the arabian peninsula
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was initially isolated from a patient who was admitted to a private hospital in the Western part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2012. Subsequently, MERS-CoV resulted in many sporadic cases, multiple intrafamilial transmission, and major outb...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7149635/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804543-5.00004-X |
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description | Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was initially isolated from a patient who was admitted to a private hospital in the Western part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2012. Subsequently, MERS-CoV resulted in many sporadic cases, multiple intrafamilial transmission, and major outbreaks in healthcare settings. Of all the cases reported within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 38% of the cases were primary, 45% were healthcare-associated infection, and 14% were household infections. The clinical spectrum of the MERS-CoV infection ranges from asymptomatic infections, mild or moderately symptomatic cases, and severe disease requiring intensive care unit admissions and may result in death. Within healthcare settings, transmissions of MERS-CoV are facilitated by overcrowding, poor infection control measures, unrecognized infections, and superspreader phenomenon. Currently, there is no approved therapy for MERS-CoV and there are no vaccines. |
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spelling | pubmed-71496352020-04-13 The middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus respiratory infection: an emerging infection from the arabian peninsula Al-Tawfiq, J.A. Memish, Z.A. The Microbiology of Respiratory System Infections Article Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was initially isolated from a patient who was admitted to a private hospital in the Western part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2012. Subsequently, MERS-CoV resulted in many sporadic cases, multiple intrafamilial transmission, and major outbreaks in healthcare settings. Of all the cases reported within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 38% of the cases were primary, 45% were healthcare-associated infection, and 14% were household infections. The clinical spectrum of the MERS-CoV infection ranges from asymptomatic infections, mild or moderately symptomatic cases, and severe disease requiring intensive care unit admissions and may result in death. Within healthcare settings, transmissions of MERS-CoV are facilitated by overcrowding, poor infection control measures, unrecognized infections, and superspreader phenomenon. Currently, there is no approved therapy for MERS-CoV and there are no vaccines. 2016 2016-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7149635/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804543-5.00004-X Text en Copyright © 2016 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. |
spellingShingle | Article Al-Tawfiq, J.A. Memish, Z.A. The middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus respiratory infection: an emerging infection from the arabian peninsula |
title | The middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus respiratory infection: an emerging infection from the arabian peninsula |
title_full | The middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus respiratory infection: an emerging infection from the arabian peninsula |
title_fullStr | The middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus respiratory infection: an emerging infection from the arabian peninsula |
title_full_unstemmed | The middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus respiratory infection: an emerging infection from the arabian peninsula |
title_short | The middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus respiratory infection: an emerging infection from the arabian peninsula |
title_sort | middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus respiratory infection: an emerging infection from the arabian peninsula |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7149635/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804543-5.00004-X |
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