Interhuman transmissibility of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: estimation of pandemic risk

• Published in: The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 382; no. 9893; pp. 694 - 699
• Main Authors: Breban, Romulus, Riou, Julien, Fontanet, Arnaud
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 24.08.2013; Elsevier; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Bayesian theory; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Child, Preschool; Cluster Analysis; disease transmission; emerging diseases; Fatalities; Female; General aspects; hosts; Humans; Infections; Infectious diseases; Internal Medicine; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Middle East - epidemiology; Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus; Miscellaneous; monitoring; pandemic; Pandemics; patients; Public health; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; risk; Risk Assessment; SARS coronavirus; Severe acute respiratory syndrome; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - mortality; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - transmission; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus; Studies; Trees; viruses; World Health Organization; Young Adult; World; Asia; Middle east; Middle East; Saudi Arabia; United Kingdom > UK; China; Virus; Medicine; Respiratory tract; Coronavirus; Estimation; Risk factor; Risk; Coronaviridae; Respiratory system; Nidovirales; Public health; Syndrome

The new Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection shares many clinical, epidemiological, and virological similarities with that of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-CoV. We aimed to estimate virus transmissibility and the epidemic potential of MERS-CoV, and to compare...