Seroprevalence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in public health workers responding to a MERS outbreak in Seoul, Republic of Korea, in 2015

Boyeong Ryu^{1

2}, Sung-Il Cho^{1

2}, Myoung-Don Oh^{1

3}, Jong-Koo Lee^{1

4}, Jaein Lee⁵, Young-Ok Hwang⁵, Jeong-Sun Yang⁶, Sung Soon Kim⁶, Ji Hwan Bang^{1

7}

Affiliations

¹ Seoul Center for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
² Department of Epidemiology, Seoul National University School of Public Health, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
⁴ Department of Family Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
⁵ Seoul Metropolitan Government Research Institute of Public Health and Environment, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
⁶ Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cheongju, Republic of Korea.
⁷ Division of Infectious Diseases, Seoul Metropolitan Government-Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Boyeong Ryu et al. Western Pac Surveill Response J. 2019.

. 2019 Jun 6;10(2):46-48.

doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2018.9.3.002. eCollection 2019 Apr-Jun.

Boyeong Ryu^{1

2}, Sung-Il Cho^{1

2}, Myoung-Don Oh^{1

3}, Jong-Koo Lee^{1

4}, Jaein Lee⁵, Young-Ok Hwang⁵, Jeong-Sun Yang⁶, Sung Soon Kim⁶, Ji Hwan Bang^{1

7}

¹ Seoul Center for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
² Department of Epidemiology, Seoul National University School of Public Health, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
⁴ Department of Family Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
⁵ Seoul Metropolitan Government Research Institute of Public Health and Environment, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
⁶ Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cheongju, Republic of Korea.
⁷ Division of Infectious Diseases, Seoul Metropolitan Government-Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

No abstract available

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