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Taking stock of the first 133 MERS coronavirus cases globally--Is the epidemic changing?
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Taking stock of the first 133 MERS coronavirus cases globally--Is the epidemic changing?

P M Penttinen, K Kaasik-Aaslav, A Friaux, A Donachie, B Sudre, A J Amato-Gauci, Z A Memish and D Coulombier
Euro surveillance : bulletin européen sur les maladies transmissibles, Vol.18(39), pp.11-15
26/09/2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES2013.18.39.20596
PMID: 24094061

Abstract

Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Child Child, Preschool Contact Tracing Coronavirus - genetics Coronavirus - isolation & purification Coronavirus Infections - diagnosis Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology Coronavirus Infections - virology Cross Infection - epidemiology Epidemics Female Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Male Middle Aged Middle East - epidemiology Population Surveillance Sequence Analysis Sex Distribution Young Adult
Since June 2012, 133 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) cases have been identified in nine countries. Two time periods in 2013 were compared to identify changes in the epidemiology. The case-fatality risk (CFR) is 45% and is decreasing. Men have a higher CFR (52%) and are over-represented among cases. Thirteen out of 14 known primary cases died. The sex-ratio is more balanced in the latter period. Nosocomial transmission was implied in 26% of the cases.
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