Middle East respiratory syndrome: what we learned from the 2015 outbreak in the Republic of Korea
The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
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: 233-246, 2018.
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em Inglês
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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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Assunto principal:
Pneumonia
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Virologia
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Epidemiologia
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Surtos de Doenças
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Infecções por Coronavirus
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Coronavirus
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República da Coreia
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Coronavírus da Síndrome Respiratória do Oriente Médio
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Coreia (Geográfico)
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Oriente Médio
Limite:
Humanos
País/Região como assunto:
Ásia
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
Ano de publicação:
2018
Tipo de documento:
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