A case of imported Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus infection and public health response, Greece, April 2014

On 18 April 2014, a case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection was laboratory confirmed in Athens, Greece in a patient returning from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Main symptoms upon initial presentation were protracted fever and diarrhoea, during hospitalisation he developed...

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Published inEuro surveillance : bulletin européen sur les maladies transmissibles Vol. 19; no. 16; p. 20782
Main Authors Tsiodras, S, Baka, A, Mentis, A, Iliopoulos, D, Dedoukou, X, Papamavrou, G, Karadima, S, Emmanouil, M, Kossyvakis, A, Spanakis, N, Pavli, A, Maltezou, H, Karageorgou, A, Spala, G, Pitiriga, V, Kosmas, E, Tsiagklis, S, Gkatzias, S, Koulouris, Ng, Koutsoukou, A, Bakakos, P, Markozanhs, E, Dionellis, G, Pontikis, K, Rovina, N, Kyriakopoulou, M, Efstathiou, P, Papadimitriou, T, Kremastinou, J, Tsakris, A, Saroglou, G
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Sweden Centre Europeen pour la Surveillance Epidemiologique du SIDA (European Centre for the Epidemiological Monitoring of AIDS) 24.04.2014
Subjects
Aged
Contact Tracing
Coronavirus - genetics
Coronavirus - isolation & purification
Coronavirus Infections - diagnosis
Coronavirus Infections - genetics
Coronavirus Infections - virology
Diarrhea
Fever
Fever - etiology
Greece
Hospitalization
Humans
Inflammatory diseases
Male
Pneumonia, Viral - virology
Respiratory Tract Infections - diagnosis
Respiratory Tract Infections - virology
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
Saudi Arabia
Syndrome
Travel
Treatment Outcome
Viral infections
Greece
Saudi Arabia
Jeddah Saudi Arabia
Athens Greece
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Summary:On 18 April 2014, a case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection was laboratory confirmed in Athens, Greece in a patient returning from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Main symptoms upon initial presentation were protracted fever and diarrhoea, during hospitalisation he developed bilateral pneumonia and his condition worsened. During 14 days prior to onset of illness, he had extensive contact with the healthcare environment in Jeddah. Contact tracing revealed 73 contacts, no secondary cases had occurred by 22 April.
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ISSN:1560-7917
1025-496X
1560-7917
DOI:10.2807/1560-7917.es2014.19.16.20782