Emerging Infectious Diseases (Feb 2015)

Cluster of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infections in Iran, 2014

  • Jila Yavarian,
  • Farshid Rezaei,
  • Azadeh Shadab,
  • Mahmood Soroush,
  • Mohammad Mehdi Gooya,
  • Talat Mokhtari Azad

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2102.141405
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 2
pp. 362 – 364

Abstract

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During January 2013–August 2014, a total of 1,800 patients in Iran who had respiratory illness were tested for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus. A cluster of 5 cases occurred in Kerman Province during May–July 2014, but virus transmission routes for some infections were unclear.

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