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ArticleEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2015

Preliminary epidemiological assessment of MERS-CoV outbreak in South Korea, May to June 2015.

B J Cowling, M Park, V J Fang, P Wu, G M Leung, J T Wu

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Article in Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 197 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

197 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

B J CowlingWorld Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
M Park
V J Fang
P Wu
G M Leung
J T Wu

Funding

Understanding and controlling antibiotic resistanceU54GM088558 · NIGMS · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI HANAGE, WILLIAM · 2009 to 2018
$26.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM088558
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

South Korea is experiencing the largest outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus infections outside the Arabian Peninsula, with 166 laboratory-confirmed cases, including 24 deaths up to 19 June 2015. We estimated that the mean incubation period was 6.7 days and the mean serial interval 12.6 days. We found it unlikely that infectiousness precedes symptom onset. Based on currently available data, we predict an overall case fatality risk of 21% (95% credible interval: 14–31).

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Disease OutbreaksCoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCross InfectionFemaleHumansMaleMiddle East Respiratory Syndrome CoronavirusRepublic of Korea

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PMID26132767
PMCPMC4535930

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