Surveillance and public health response for travelers returning from MERS-CoV affected countries to Gyeonggi Province, Korea, 2016-2017

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Disease Control, Gyeonggi Provincial Government, Suwon, Republic of Korea; WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Electronic address: gentryu@onehealth.or.kr.
² Division of Infectious Disease Control, Gyeonggi Provincial Government, Suwon, Republic of Korea.
³ WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Sukhyun Ryu et al. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2019 Sep-Oct.

. 2019 Sep-Oct:31:101350.

doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2018.11.006. Epub 2018 Nov 9.

¹ Division of Infectious Disease Control, Gyeonggi Provincial Government, Suwon, Republic of Korea; WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Electronic address: gentryu@onehealth.or.kr.
² Division of Infectious Disease Control, Gyeonggi Provincial Government, Suwon, Republic of Korea.
³ WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

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Keywords: Korea; Middle east respiratory syndrome; Notification; Response; Surveillance.

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