The role of superspreading in Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) transmission
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- 25 June 2015
- journal article
- research article
- Published by European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) in Eurosurveillance
- Vol. 20 (25) , 21167-18
- https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.es2015.20.25.21167
Abstract
As at 15 June 2015, a large transmission cluster of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was ongoing in South Korea. To examine the potential for such events, we estimated the level of heterogeneity in MERS-CoV transmission by analysing data on cluster size distributions. We found substantial potential for superspreading; even though it is likely that R0 < 1 overall, our analysis indicates that cluster sizes of over 150 cases are not unexpected for MERS-CoV infection.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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