Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2014)

Health Care Worker Contact with MERS Patient, Saudi Arabia

  • Aron J. Hall,
  • Jerome I. Tokars,
  • Samar A. Badreddine,
  • Ziad Bin Saad,
  • Elaine Furukawa,
  • Malak Al Masri,
  • Lia M. Haynes,
  • Susan I. Gerber,
  • David T. Kuhar,
  • Congrong Miao,
  • Suvang U. Trivedi,
  • Mark A. Pallansch,
  • Rana Hajjeh,
  • Ziad A. Memish

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2012.141211
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 12
pp. 2148 – 2151

Abstract

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To investigate potential transmission of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) to health care workers in a hospital, we serologically tested hospital contacts of the index case-patient in Saudi Arabia, 4 months after his death. None of the 48 contacts showed evidence of MERS-CoV infection.

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