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Notes from the Field: Nosocomial Outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in a Large Tertiary Care Hospital--Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2015.

Hanan H Balkhy, Thamer H Alenazi, Majid M Alshamrani, Henry Baffoe-Bonnie, Hail M Al-Abdely, Aiman El-Saed, Hussain A Al Arbash, Zayid K Al Mayahi, Abdullah M Assiri, Abdulaziz Bin Saeed.   

Abstract

Since the first diagnosis of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) caused by the MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2012, sporadic cases and clusters have occurred throughout the country (1). During June-August, 2015, a large MERS outbreak occurred at King Abulaziz Medical City, a 1,200-bed tertiary-care hospital that includes a 150-bed emergency department that registers 250,000 visits per year.

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Year:  2016        PMID: 26890816     DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6506a5

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep        ISSN: 0149-2195            Impact factor:   17.586


  34 in total

Review 1.  Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Virus-Pathophysiological Axis and the Current Treatment Strategies.

Authors:  Abdullah M Alnuqaydan; Abdulmajeed G Almutary; Arulmalar Sukamaran; Brian Tay Wei Yang; Xiao Ting Lee; Wei Xuan Lim; Yee Min Ng; Rania Ibrahim; Thiviya Darmarajan; Satheeshkumar Nanjappan; Jestin Chellian; Mayuren Candasamy; Thiagarajan Madheswaran; Ankur Sharma; Harish Dureja; Parteek Prasher; Nitin Verma; Deepak Kumar; Kishneth Palaniveloo; Dheeraj Bisht; Gaurav Gupta; Jyotsana R Madan; Sachin Kumar Singh; Niraj Kumar Jha; Kamal Dua; Dinesh Kumar Chellappan
Journal:  AAPS PharmSciTech       Date:  2021-06-08       Impact factor: 3.246

2.  Increase in Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus Cases in Saudi Arabia Linked to Hospital Outbreak With Continued Circulation of Recombinant Virus, July 1-August 31, 2015.

Authors:  Abdullah M Assiri; Holly M Biggs; Glen R Abedi; Xiaoyan Lu; Abdulaziz Bin Saeed; Osman Abdalla; Mutaz Mohammed; Hail M Al-Abdely; Homoud S Algarni; Raafat F Alhakeem; Malak M Almasri; Ali A Alsharef; Randa Nooh; Dean D Erdman; Susan I Gerber; John T Watson
Journal:  Open Forum Infect Dis       Date:  2016-08-03       Impact factor: 3.835

3.  An assessment of the level of concern among hospital-based health-care workers regarding MERS outbreaks in Saudi Arabia.

Authors:  Mostafa A Abolfotouh; Ali A AlQarni; Suliman M Al-Ghamdi; Mahmoud Salam; Mohammed H Al-Assiri; Hanan H Balkhy
Journal:  BMC Infect Dis       Date:  2017-01-03       Impact factor: 3.090

4.  The critical care response to a hospital outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection: an observational study.

Authors:  Hasan M Al-Dorzi; Abdulaziz S Aldawood; Raymond Khan; Salim Baharoon; John D Alchin; Amal A Matroud; Sameera M Al Johany; Hanan H Balkhy; Yaseen M Arabi
Journal:  Ann Intensive Care       Date:  2016-10-24       Impact factor: 6.925

5.  Exposures among MERS Case-Patients, Saudi Arabia, January-February 2016.

Authors:  Raafat F Alhakeem; Claire M Midgley; Abdullah M Assiri; Mohammed Alessa; Hassan Al Hawaj; Abdulaziz Bin Saeed; Malak M Almasri; Xiaoyan Lu; Glen R Abedi; Osman Abdalla; Mutaz Mohammed; Homoud S Algarni; Hail M Al-Abdely; Ali Abraheem Alsharef; Randa Nooh; Dean D Erdman; Susan I Gerber; John T Watson
Journal:  Emerg Infect Dis       Date:  2016-11-15       Impact factor: 6.883

6.  Outcome of strict implementation of infection prevention control measures during an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome.

Authors:  Hassan E El Bushra; Hussain A Al Arbash; Mutaz Mohammed; Osman Abdalla; Mohamed N Abdallah; Zayid K Al-Mayahi; Abdallah M Assiri; Abdulaziz A BinSaeed
Journal:  Am J Infect Control       Date:  2017-02-08       Impact factor: 2.918

Review 7.  Dynamics of scientific publications on the MERS-CoV outbreaks in Saudi Arabia.

Authors:  Ali A Rabaan; Shamsah H Al-Ahmed; Ali M Bazzi; Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq
Journal:  J Infect Public Health       Date:  2017-06-24       Impact factor: 3.718

8.  Comparative Analysis of Eleven Healthcare-Associated Outbreaks of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (Mers-Cov) from 2015 to 2017.

Authors:  Sibylle Bernard-Stoecklin; Birgit Nikolay; Abdullah Assiri; Abdul Aziz Bin Saeed; Peter Karim Ben Embarek; Hassan El Bushra; Moran Ki; Mamunur Rahman Malik; Arnaud Fontanet; Simon Cauchemez; Maria D Van Kerkhove
Journal:  Sci Rep       Date:  2019-05-14       Impact factor: 4.379

9.  The global spread of Middle East respiratory syndrome: an analysis fusing traditional epidemiological tracing and molecular phylodynamics.

Authors:  Jae Min; Eleonora Cella; Massimo Ciccozzi; Antonello Pelosi; Marco Salemi; Mattia Prosperi
Journal:  Glob Health Res Policy       Date:  2016-09-28

10.  Epidemiology and predictors of survival of MERS-CoV infections in Riyadh region, 2014-2015.

Authors:  Fahad S Al-Jasser; Randa M Nouh; Randa M Youssef
Journal:  J Infect Public Health       Date:  2018-10-16       Impact factor: 3.718

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