ArticleThe Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale2018
Network Analysis of MERS Coronavirus within Households, Communities, and Hospitals to Identify Most Centralized and Super-Spreading in the Arabian Peninsula, 2012 to 2016.
Article in The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- The time between symptom onset and various clinical outcomes: a statistical analysis of MERS-CoV patients in Saudi Arabia.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Understanding the progress of COVID-19 transmission in a rural district: a social network approach.PeerJ · 2024Article
- Spread of Epidemic Disease on Edge-Weighted Graphs from a Database: A Case Study of COVID-19.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Superspreading of SARS-CoV-2 in the USA.PloS one · 2021Article
- Analysis of the COVID-19 Epidemic Transmission Network in Mainland China: K-Core Decomposition Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2020Article
- The Potential Role of Super Spread Events in SARS-COV-2 Pandemic; a Narrative Review.Archives of academic emergency medicine · 2020Review
- Individual and network characteristic associated with hospital-acquired Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus.Journal of infection and public healthArticle
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Abstract
Contact history is crucial during an infectious disease outbreak and vital when seeking to understand and predict the spread of infectious diseases in human populations. The transmission connectivity networks of people infected with highly contagious Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in Saudi Arabia were assessed to identify super-spreading events among the infected patients between 2012 and 2016. Of the 1379 MERS cases recorded during the study period, 321 (23.3%) cases were linked to hospital infection, out of which 203 (14.7%) cases occurred among healthcare workers. There were 1113 isolated cases while the number of recorded contacts per MERS patient is between 1 (
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