Health Care Worker Contact with MERS Patient, Saudi Arabia

Hall, Aron J.; Tokars, Jerome I.; Badreddine, Samar A.; Saad, Ziad Bin; Furukawa, Elaine; Al Masri, Malak; Haynes, Lia M.; Gerber, Susan I.; Kuhar, David T.; Miao, Congrong; Trivedi, Suvang U.; Pallansch, Mark A.; Hajjeh, Rana; Memish, Ziad A.

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Health Care Worker Contact with MERS Patient, Saudi Arabia

Published Date:

Dec 2014

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Emerg Infect Dis. 20(12):2148-2151.

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Hall, Aron J. ; Tokars, Jerome I. ; Badreddine, Samar A. ; Saad, Ziad Bin ; Furukawa, Elaine ; ... More ▼

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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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