Middle East Respiratory Syndrome–advancing the public health and research agenda on MERS-lessons from the South Korea outbreak

E Petersen, DS Hui, S Perlman… - International Journal of …, 2015 - ijidonline.com
The weekly epidemiological record of the World Health Organisation 15th May 2015 1 states
that 'the cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) recently exported to other …

[HTML][HTML] Lack of seasonal variation of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)

JA Al-Tawfiq, ZA Memish - Travel medicine and infectious disease, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Seasonality of disease, mainly of respiratory pathogens, is a key feature [1]. The Middle East
Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a newly emerging respiratory viral …

[HTML][HTML] Estimation of basic reproduction number of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) during the outbreak in South Korea, 2015

HJ Chang - Biomedical engineering online, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background In South Korea, an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome
(MERS) occurred in 2015. It was the second largest MERS outbreak. As a result of the …

[HTML][HTML] Stochastic and spatio-temporal analysis of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome outbreak in South Korea, 2015

H Lee - Infectious Disease Modelling, 2019 - Elsevier
South Korea was free of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) until 2015. The
MERS outbreak in South Korea during 2015 was the largest outbreak of the Coronavirus …

[HTML][HTML] MERS epidemiological investigation to detect potential mode of transmission in the 178th MERS confirmed case in Pyeongtaek, Korea

K Chang, M Ki, EG Lee, SY Lee, B Yoo… - Epidemiology and …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Most cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) infection in Korea
(outbreak: May 11-July 4, 2015) occurred in hospital settings, with uncertain transmission …

Serological study of an imported case of middle east respiratory syndrome and his close contacts in China, 2015

WL Wang, HJ Wang, D Yao, S Tie, JM Lan… - Biomedical and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The first imported Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) case in China was identified in
May 2015. We determined the kinetics of antibody (IgG and IgM) and neutralizing antibodies …

[PDF][PDF] Understanding and modeling the super-spreading events of the Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak in Korea

BC Chun - Infection & chemotherapy, 2016 - synapse.koreamed.org
Super-spreading events (SSE) have been reported for many infectious disease outbreaks
such as measles [1], tuberculosis [2], Ebola [3], and severe acute respiratory syndrome …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical determinants of the severity of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS): a systematic review and meta-analysis

R Matsuyama, H Nishiura, S Kutsuna, K Hayakawa… - BMC public health, 2016 - Springer
Background While the risk of severe complications of Middle East respiratory syndrome
(MERS) and its determinants have been explored in previous studies, a systematic analysis …

Assessing the risk of observing multiple generations of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) cases given an imported case

H Nishiura, Y Miyamatsu, G Chowell… - …, 2015 - eurosurveillance.org
Assessing the risk of observing multiple generations of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)
cases given an imported case Page 1 6 www.eurosurveillance.org Rapid communications …

[HTML][HTML] Synthesizing data and models for the spread of MERS-CoV, 2013: key role of index cases and hospital transmission

G Chowell, S Blumberg, L Simonsen, MA Miller… - Epidemics, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has
caused 209 deaths and 699 laboratory-confirmed cases in the Arabian Peninsula as of June …