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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| author | 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 |
| author_facet | 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 |
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| description | 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 infection. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0d917c5fc6ca45b384eb453eb367ceeb2022-12-22T01:13:02ZengCenters for Disease Control and PreventionEmerging Infectious Diseases1080-60401080-60592014-12-0120122148215110.3201/eid2012.141211Health Care Worker Contact with MERS Patient, Saudi ArabiaAron J. HallJerome I. TokarsSamar A. BadreddineZiad Bin SaadElaine FurukawaMalak Al MasriLia M. HaynesSusan I. GerberDavid T. KuharCongrong MiaoSuvang U. TrivediMark A. PallanschRana HajjehZiad A. MemishTo 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 infection.https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/12/14-1211_articleMERScoronavirushealthcarecontact investigationinfection controlviruses |
| spellingShingle | 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 Health Care Worker Contact with MERS Patient, Saudi Arabia Emerging Infectious Diseases MERS coronavirus healthcare contact investigation infection control viruses |
| title | Health Care Worker Contact with MERS Patient, Saudi Arabia |
| title_full | Health Care Worker Contact with MERS Patient, Saudi Arabia |
| title_fullStr | Health Care Worker Contact with MERS Patient, Saudi Arabia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Health Care Worker Contact with MERS Patient, Saudi Arabia |
| title_short | Health Care Worker Contact with MERS Patient, Saudi Arabia |
| title_sort | health care worker contact with mers patient saudi arabia |
| topic | MERS coronavirus healthcare contact investigation infection control viruses |
| url | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/12/14-1211_article |
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