Selected article for: "contact droplet and MERS cov"
Author: Oh, Myoung-don
Title: The Korean Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Outbreak and Our Responsibility to the Global Scientific Community
  • Document date: 2016_6_30
    • ID: 2ml4hjyd_5
    Snippet: It is of note that MERS-CoV was transmitted to the patients in 4 different rooms at Hospital A, whereas it was transmitted to only one other patient, excluding the roommates of the index patient, at Hospital B. The index patient was staying at Hospital A from May 22nd. to May 28th and at Hospital B from May 28th to May 30th. He did not receive any aerosol generating procedures during the admission at Hospital A, whereas he received nebulizer ther.....
    Document: It is of note that MERS-CoV was transmitted to the patients in 4 different rooms at Hospital A, whereas it was transmitted to only one other patient, excluding the roommates of the index patient, at Hospital B. The index patient was staying at Hospital A from May 22nd. to May 28th and at Hospital B from May 28th to May 30th. He did not receive any aerosol generating procedures during the admission at Hospital A, whereas he received nebulizer therapy and underwent bronchoscopy at Hospital B. If MERS-CoV had been transmitted via the airborne route, a more widespread area of infection is likely to have occurred at Hospital B. Then, why did MERS-CoV spread more widely at Hospital A than Hospital B? Had the patient interacted with the patients in other rooms, and transmitted the virus by droplet contact? Had a nurse with possible MERS-CoV contamination on her hands, contaminated the surroundings in other rooms, leading to other patients being infected via fomite contact?

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