Infection control and MERS-CoV in health-care workers

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infection, Division of Infection and Immunity, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, University College London, London, UK; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University College London Hospitals, London, UK.
² Department of Medicine and Therapeutics and Stanley Ho Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong. Electronic address: dschui@cuhk.edu.hk.

Alimuddin Zumla et al. Lancet. 2014.

. 2014 May 31;383(9932):1869-71.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60852-7. Epub 2014 May 20.

¹ Department of Infection, Division of Infection and Immunity, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, University College London, London, UK; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University College London Hospitals, London, UK.
² Department of Medicine and Therapeutics and Stanley Ho Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong. Electronic address: dschui@cuhk.edu.hk.

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