Health Care Worker Contact with MERS Patient, Saudi Arabia
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To investigate potential transmission of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) to health care workers in a hospital, we serologically tested hospital contacts of the index case-patient in Saudi Arabia, 4 months after his death. None of the 48 contacts showed evidence of MERS-CoV infection.
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 20 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014