Severe Respiratory Illness Outbreak Associated with Human Coronavirus NL63 in a Long-Term Care Facility

Severe Respiratory Illness Outbreak Associated with Human Coronavirus NL63 in a Long-Term Care Facility

We describe an outbreak of severe respiratory illness associated with human coronavirus NL63 in a long-term care facility in Louisiana in November 2017. Six of 20 case-patients were hospitalized with pneumonia, and 3 of 20 died. Clinicians should consider human coronavirus NL63 for patients in simil...

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Veröffentlicht in:Emerging infectious diseases 2018-10, Vol.24 (10), p.1964-1966
Hauptverfasser: Hand, Julie, Rose, Erica Billig, Salinas, Andrea, Lu, Xiaoyan, Sakthivel, Senthilkumar K, Schneider, Eileen, Watson, John T
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Sprache:eng
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coronavirus
Fever
Health aspects
Infection
Long term care
Long term care facilities
long-term care facility
Louisiana
Lung diseases
outbreak
Research Letter
respiratory infections
USA
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Zusammenfassung:We describe an outbreak of severe respiratory illness associated with human coronavirus NL63 in a long-term care facility in Louisiana in November 2017. Six of 20 case-patients were hospitalized with pneumonia, and 3 of 20 died. Clinicians should consider human coronavirus NL63 for patients in similar settings with respiratory disease.
ISSN:1080-6040
1080-6059
DOI:10.3201/eid2410.180862