Transmission of MERS-Coronavirus in Household Contacts
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- 28 August 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 371 (9) , 828-835
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1405858
Abstract
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.Keywords
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