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. 2018 Oct;24(10):1964-1966.
doi: 10.3201/eid2410.180862.

Severe Respiratory Illness Outbreak Associated with Human Coronavirus NL63 in a Long-Term Care Facility

Julie Hand, Erica Billig Rose, Andrea Salinas, Xiaoyan Lu, Senthilkumar K Sakthivel, Eileen Schneider, John T Watson

Severe Respiratory Illness Outbreak Associated with Human Coronavirus NL63 in a Long-Term Care Facility

Julie Hand et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2018 Oct.

Abstract

We describe an outbreak of severe respiratory illness associated with human coronavirus NL63 in a long-term care facility in Louisiana in November 2017. Six of 20 case-patients were hospitalized with pneumonia, and 3 of 20 died. Clinicians should consider human coronavirus NL63 for patients in similar settings with respiratory disease.

Keywords: Louisiana; NL63; USA; United States; coronavirus; long-term care facility; lower respiratory tract infection; outbreak; respiratory infections; viruses.

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