Epidemic characteristics and response situation of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
10.3969/j.issn.1002-2694.2015.10.016
- VernacularTitle:中东呼吸综合征流行特征与应对现状
- Author:
Wenjing YE
;
Rongtao HONG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome;
epidemic characteristics;
clinical treatment;
response situation
- From:
Chinese Journal of Zoonoses
2015;(10):972-977
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) discovered in 2012 was caused by a novel coronavirus .With high mortality and severe acute respiratory syndrome ,the coronavirus had been named as the Middle East Respiratory Syn‐drome Coronavirus (MERS‐COV) .At present ,the disease occurred in the Middle East and spread to other countries aroused extensive attention all over the world .In this review ,we mainly focus on the research progress of MERS‐CoV about the epide‐miological characteristics ,clinical treatment and global response situation ,providing advices and references of preventing and controlling effectively for M ERS in the future .
