Surveillance and Testing for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, Saudi Arabia, March 2016-March 2019

Surveillance and Testing for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, Saudi Arabia, March 2016-March 2019

During March 2016-March 2019, a total of 200,936 suspected cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection were identified in Saudi Arabia; infections were confirmed in 698 cases (0.3% [0.7/100,000 population per year]). Continued surveillance is necessary for early case detection an...

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Veröffentlicht in:Emerging infectious diseases 2020-07, Vol.26 (7), p.1571-1574
Hauptverfasser: Alzahrani, Abdullah, Kujawski, Stephanie A., Abedi, Glen R., Tunkar, Safaa, Biggs, Holly M., Alghawi, Nada, Jokhdar, Hani, Assiri, Abdullah M., Watson, John T.
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
coronavirus
Coronaviruses
Diagnosis
Disease transmission
Dispatch
Electronic records
Electronic surveillance
Epidemics
Health aspects
Hospitals
Immunology
Infections
Infectious Diseases
Laboratories
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Middle East respiratory syndrome
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)
Patients
Pneumonia
Population
Privacy
Respiratory diseases
Respiratory distress syndrome
respiratory infections
Saudi Arabia
Science & Technology
surveillance
Trends
viruses
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Zusammenfassung:During March 2016-March 2019, a total of 200,936 suspected cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection were identified in Saudi Arabia; infections were confirmed in 698 cases (0.3% [0.7/100,000 population per year]). Continued surveillance is necessary for early case detection and timely infection control response.
ISSN:1080-6040
1080-6059
DOI:10.3201/eid2607.200437