Epidemiological investigation of MERS-CoV spread in a single hospital in South Korea, May to June 2015*

H Y Park; E J Lee; Y W Ryu; Y Kim; H Kim; H Lee; S J Yi

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES2015.20.25.21169

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Epidemiological investigation of MERS-CoV spread in a single hospital in South Korea, May to June 2015*
H Y Park¹ , E J Lee² , Y W Ryu² , Y Kim¹ , H Kim¹ , H Lee¹ , S J Yi¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Gyeonggi Infectious Disease Control Center, Seongnam, Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea ² Gyeonggi Infectious Disease Control Center Epidemic Intelligence Service, Seongnam, Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea

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S Yi
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Citation style for this article: Park H Y, Lee E J, Ryu Y W, Kim Y, Kim H, Lee H, Yi S J. Epidemiological investigation of MERS-CoV spread in a single hospital in South Korea, May to June 2015*. Euro Surveill. 2015;20(25):pii=21169. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES2015.20.25.21169 Received: 10 Jun 2015

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Abstract

In this report, we describe 37 MERS-CoV infection cases (1 primary, 25 secondary, 11 tertiary cases) in a single hospital in South Korea. The median incubation period was six days (95% CI: 4-7 days) and the duration between suspected symptom onset and laboratory confirmation was 6.5 days (95% CI: 4-9). While incubation period was two days longer, the duration from suspected symptom onset to confirmation was shorter in tertiary compared with secondary infections. .