Association of Higher MERS-CoV Virus Load with Severe Disease and Death, Saudi Arabia, 2014

Association of Higher MERS-CoV Virus Load with Severe Disease and Death, Saudi Arabia, 2014

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) causes a spectrum of illness. We evaluated whether cycle threshold (Ct) values (which are inversely related to virus load) were associated with clinical severity in patients from Saudi Arabia whose nasopharyngeal specimens tested positive for t...

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Main Authors: Daniel R. Feikin, Basem M. Alraddadi, Mohammed Qutub, Omaima Shabouni, Aaron Curns, Ikwo K. Oboho, Sara M. Tomczyk, Bernard J. Wolff, John T. Watson, Tariq A. Madani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2015-11-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus
MERS-CoV
virus load
Saudi Arabia
viruses
zoonoses
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/11/15-0764_article

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