sharon sanders
Editor-in-Chief & President
Eurosurveillance, Volume 19, Issue 21, 29 May 2014
Rapid communications
MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS (MERS-COV) INFECTIONS IN TWO RETURNING TRAVELLERS IN THE NETHERLANDS, MAY 2014
M Kraaij ? Dirkzwager ()1, A Timen1, K Dirksen2, L Gelinck3, E Leyten3, P Groeneveld4, C Jansen3, M Jonges5, S Raj6, I Thurkow7, R van Gageldonk-Lafeber8, A van der Eijk6, M Koopmans5,6, on behalf of the MERS-CoV outbreak investigation team of the Netherlands9
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Two patients, returning to the Netherlands from pilgrimage in Medina and Mecca, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, were diagnosed with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in May 2014. The source and mode of transmission have not yet been determined. Hospital-acquired infection and community-acquired infection are both possible.
http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20817
Rapid communications
MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS (MERS-COV) INFECTIONS IN TWO RETURNING TRAVELLERS IN THE NETHERLANDS, MAY 2014
M Kraaij ? Dirkzwager ()1, A Timen1, K Dirksen2, L Gelinck3, E Leyten3, P Groeneveld4, C Jansen3, M Jonges5, S Raj6, I Thurkow7, R van Gageldonk-Lafeber8, A van der Eijk6, M Koopmans5,6, on behalf of the MERS-CoV outbreak investigation team of the Netherlands9
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Two patients, returning to the Netherlands from pilgrimage in Medina and Mecca, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, were diagnosed with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in May 2014. The source and mode of transmission have not yet been determined. Hospital-acquired infection and community-acquired infection are both possible.
http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20817