Middle East Respiratory Syndrome - advancing the public health and research agenda on MERS - lessons from the South Korea outbreak

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Aarhus University Hospital Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark. Electronic address: eskildp@dadlnet.dk.
² Division of Respiratory Medicine and Stanley Ho Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China. Electronic address: dschui@cuhk.edu.hk.
³ Departments of Microbiology and Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
⁴ Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: a.zumla@ucl.ac.uk.

Editorial

Eskild Petersen et al. Int J Infect Dis. 2015 Jul.

. 2015 Jul:36:54-5.

doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2015.06.004. Epub 2015 Jun 10.

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Aarhus University Hospital Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark. Electronic address: eskildp@dadlnet.dk.
² Division of Respiratory Medicine and Stanley Ho Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China. Electronic address: dschui@cuhk.edu.hk.
³ Departments of Microbiology and Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
⁴ Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: a.zumla@ucl.ac.uk.

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