Hospital Outbreaks of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Daejeon, South Korea, 2015

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Park, Jung Wan ; Lee, Keon Joo ; Lee, Kang Hyoung ; Lee, Sang Hyup ; Cho, Jung Rae ; Mo, Jin Won ; Choi, Soo Young ; Kwon, Geun Yong ; Shin, Ji-Yeon ; Hong, Jee Young ; Kim, Jin ; Yeon, Mi-Yeon ; Oh, Jong Seok ; Nam, Hae-Sung
• Description:
  From May through July 2015, a total of 26 cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome were reported from 2 hospitals in Daejeon, South Korea, including 1 index case and 25 new cases. We examined the epidemiologic features of these cases and found an estimated median incubation period of 6.1 days (8.8 days in hospital A and 4.6 days in hospital B). The overall attack rate was 3.7% (4.7% in hospital A and 3.0% in hospital B), and the attack rates among inpatients and caregivers in the same ward were 12.3% and 22.5%, respectively. The overall case-fatality rate was 44.0% (28.6% in hospital A and 63.6% in hospital B). The use of cohort quarantine may have played a role in preventing community spread, but additional transmission occurred among members of the hospital cohort quarantined together. Caregivers may have contributed in part to the transmission.
• Subjects:
  Aged Aged, 80 And Over Coronavirus Infections Disease Outbreaks Dult Female Hospitals Humans Male Middle Aged Quarantine Research

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 23(6):898-905.
• Pubmed ID:
  28516865
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5443424
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Republic of Korea
• Location:
  Asia
• Volume:
  23
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:0272923489a21991aaa9d2f91213cd69565c0237a3b3a8b480127e073148377f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/45965/cdc_45965_DS1.pdf
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