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The Lancet. Middle East respiratory syndrome: new disease, old lessons
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The Lancet, Volume 381, Issue 9885, Pages 2229 - 2230, 29 June 2013
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61412-9
Copyright ? 2013 2013 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
Middle East respiratory syndrome: new disease, old lessons
Original Text
Charles D Gomersall, Gavin M Joynt
In 2003, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus caused an epidemic of severe viral pneumonia. The emergence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has raised concerns of a similar epidemic. Although 55 laboratory-confirmed cases have been reported to WHO, published clinical details are sparse. In The Lancet, Benoit Guery and colleagues give a detailed description of two cases, occurring without co-infection. This report is important not only because it provides information about the clinical features of the disease, but also because it confirms human-to-human transmission, shows the importance of travel and contact history-taking, draws attention to the need for analysis of lower respiratory tract specimens to exclude disease, and suggests that previous estimates of the incubation period might be too short.
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-doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61412-9
Copyright ? 2013 2013 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
Middle East respiratory syndrome: new disease, old lessons
Original Text
Charles D Gomersall, Gavin M Joynt
In 2003, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus caused an epidemic of severe viral pneumonia. The emergence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has raised concerns of a similar epidemic. Although 55 laboratory-confirmed cases have been reported to WHO, published clinical details are sparse. In The Lancet, Benoit Guery and colleagues give a detailed description of two cases, occurring without co-infection. This report is important not only because it provides information about the clinical features of the disease, but also because it confirms human-to-human transmission, shows the importance of travel and contact history-taking, draws attention to the need for analysis of lower respiratory tract specimens to exclude disease, and suggests that previous estimates of the incubation period might be too short.
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