Health Care Worker Contact with MERS Patient, Saudi Arabia

Health Care Worker Contact with MERS Patient, Saudi Arabia

To investigate potential transmission of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) to health care workers in a hospital, we serologically tested hospital contacts of the index case-patient in Saudi Arabia, 4 months after his death. None of the 48 contacts showed evidence of MERS-CoV in...

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Main Authors: Aron J. Hall, Jerome I. Tokars, Samar A. Badreddine, Ziad Bin Saad, Elaine Furukawa, Malak Al Masri, Lia M. Haynes, Susan I. Gerber, David T. Kuhar, Congrong Miao, Suvang U. Trivedi, Mark A. Pallansch, Rana Hajjeh, Ziad A. Memish
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2014-12-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
MERS
coronavirus
healthcare
contact investigation
infection control
viruses
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/12/14-1211_article

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https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/12/14-1211_article

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