Transmission of MERS-Coronavirus in Household Contacts

Drosten, Christian; Meyer, Benjamin; A. Müller, Marcel; M. Corman, Victor; Almasri, Malak; Hossain, Raheela; H. Madani, Hosam; Sieberg, Andrea; Bosch, Berend‐Jan; Lattwein, Erik; F. Alhakeem, Raafat; M. Assiri, Abdullah; H. Hajomar, Waleed; Albarrak, Ali; A. Al‐Tawfiq, Jaffar; Zumla, Alimuddin; A. Memish, Ziad

doi:10.1056/nejmoa1405858

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Transmission of MERS-Coronavirus in Household Contacts

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • Aug 27, 2014

Authors:

Christian Drosten

Benjamin Meyer

Marcel A. Müller

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Strategies to contain the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) depend on knowledge of the rate of human-to-human transmission, including subclinical infections. A lack of serologic tools has hindered targeted studies of transmission. METHODS: We studied 26 index patien...

Subject

Subclinical infection

Serology

Transmission (telecommunications)

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