Health Care Worker Contact with MERS Patient, Saudi Arabia

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  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.
• 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.
• Subjects:
  Adult Coronavirus Infections Cross Infection* Dispatch Female Health Personnel Humans Male Middle Aged Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Young Adult

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 20(12):2148-2151.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Saudi Arabia
• Location:
  Middle East
• Volume:
  20
• Issue:
  12
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:94705c704aae09f144002cc5550f5544f132f3cf1fd92ddff57d12ec2aa56732
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/26384/cdc_26384_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 405.51 KB ]