Middle East respiratory syndrome: what we learned from the 2015 outbreak in the Republic of Korea
The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
;
: 233-246, 2018.
Article
in English
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| ID: wpr-713550
ABSTRACT
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was first isolated from a patient with severe pneumonia in 2012. The 2015 Korea outbreak of MERSCoV involved 186 cases, including 38 fatalities. A total of 83% of transmission events were due to five superspreaders, and 44% of the 186 MERS cases were the patients who had been exposed in nosocomial transmission at 16 hospitals. The epidemic lasted for 2 months and the government quarantined 16,993 individuals for 14 days to control the outbreak. This outbreak provides a unique opportunity to fill the gap in our knowledge of MERS-CoV infection. Therefore, in this paper, we review the literature on epidemiology, virology, clinical features, and prevention of MERS-CoV, which were acquired from the 2015 Korea outbreak of MERS-CoV.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Pneumonia
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Virology
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Epidemiology
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Disease Outbreaks
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Coronavirus Infections
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Coronavirus
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Republic of Korea
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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
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Korea
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Middle East
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
Year:
2018
Type:
Article
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