Contact Tracing for Imported Case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, China, 2015

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Kang, Min ; Song, Tie ; Zhong, Haojie ; Hou, Jie ; Wang, Jun ; Li, Jiansen ; Wu, Jie ; He, Jianfeng ; Lin, Jinyan ; Zhang, Yonghhui
• Description:
  Confirmation of an imported case of infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in China triggered intensive contact tracing and mandatory monitoring. Using a hotline and surveillance video footage was effective for tracing all 110 identified contacts. Contact monitoring detected no secondary transmission of infection in China.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Aged Communicable Diseases, Imported/epidemiology Communicable Diseases, Imported/history Communicable Diseases, Imported/transmission Communicable Diseases, Imported/virology Contact Tracing*\/methods Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology Coronavirus Infections/history Coronavirus Infections/transmission Coronavirus Infections/virology Dispatch History, 21st Century Humans Male Middle Aged Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus*\ Population Surveillance*/methods Time Factors Young Adult

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 22(9):1644-1646.
• Pubmed ID:
  27532887
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4994337
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  China
• Location:
  Asia
• Volume:
  22
• Issue:
  9
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:2bb18bb6a26f04b7f37c2624ee4976f8dcc1b4f193880227e9b8f3869255adcc
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/41252/cdc_41252_DS1.pdf
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