Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Transmission in Extended Family, Saudi Arabia, 2014

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 22; no. 8; pp. 1395 - 1402
• Main Authors: Arwady, M. Allison, Alraddadi, Basem, Basler, Colin, Azhar, Esam I., Abuelzein, Eltayb, Sindy, Abdulfattah I., Sadiq, Bakr M. Bin, Althaqafi, Abdulhakeem O., Shabouni, Omaima, Banjar, Ayman, Haynes, Lia M., Gerber, Susan I., Feikin, Daniel R., Madani, Tariq A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.08.2016; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Antibodies, Viral - blood; Causes of; Contact Tracing; Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology; Coronavirus Infections - transmission; Coronavirus Infections - virology; Disease transmission; Distribution; Family; Female; Health aspects; Humans; infectious; Male; Middle East respiratory syndrome; Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus; Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus - isolation & purification; Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Transmission in Extended Family, Saudi Arabia, 2014; Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; Risk Factors; RT-PCR; Saudi Arabia - epidemiology; Serologic Tests; viruses; Saudi Arabia; Saudi Arabia; infectious; viruses; RT-PCR; Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus; disease transmission; serologic tests

Risk factors for human-to-human transmission of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) are largely unknown. After MERS-CoV infections occurred in an extended family in Saudi Arabia in 2014, relatives were tested by using real-time reverse transcription PCR (rRT-PCR) and serologic me...