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SUBMITTER: Al-Tawfiq JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7103679 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Al-Tawfiq Jaffar A JA Memish Ziad A ZA
Expert review of respiratory medicine 20160101 3
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) emerged in 2012 has since resulted in sporadic cases, intra-familial transmission and major outbreaks in healthcare settings. The clinical picture of MERS-CoV includes asymptomatic infections, mild or moderately symptomatic cases and fatal disease. Transmissions of MERS-CoV within healthcare settings are facilitated by overcrowding, poor compliance with basic infection control measures, unrecognized infections, the superspreaders phenomenon ...[more]