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Transmission Characteristics Of Mers And Sars In The Healthcare Setting: A Comparative Study, Gerardo Chowell, Fatima Abdirizak, Sunmi Lee, Jonggul Lee, Eunok Jung, Hiroshi Nishiura, Cecile Viboud
Transmission Characteristics Of Mers And Sars In The Healthcare Setting: A Comparative Study, Gerardo Chowell, Fatima Abdirizak, Sunmi Lee, Jonggul Lee, Eunok Jung, Hiroshi Nishiura, Cecile Viboud
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Background: The Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus has caused recurrent outbreaks in the Arabian Peninsula since 2012. Although MERS has low overall human-to-human transmission potential, there is occasional amplification in the healthcare setting, a pattern reminiscent of the dynamics of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreaks in 2003. Here we provide a head-to-head comparison of exposure patterns and transmission dynamics of large hospital clusters of MERS and SARS, including the most recent South Korean outbreak of MERS in 2015.
Methods: To assess the unexpected nature of the recent South Korean nosocomial outbreak of MERS and estimate the probability …