Preliminary epidemiological assessment of MERS-CoV outbreak in South Korea, May to June 2015.

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South Korea is experiencing the largest outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus infections outside the Arabian Peninsula, with 166 laboratory-confirmed cases, including 24 deaths up to 19 June 2015. We estimated that the mean incubation period was 6.7 days and the mean serial interval 12.6 days. We found it unlikely that infectiousness precedes symptom onset. Based on currently available data, we predict an overall case fatality risk of 21% (95% credible interval: 14–31).

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Euro Surveill.

Title: Euro surveillance : bulletin Européen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

ISSN (Electronic): 1560-7917

ISSN (Print): 1025-496X

Publication date (Electronic): 2015

Volume: 20

Issue: 25

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[1 ] World Health Organization 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, China.

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Mid ID: NIHMS713240

PMC ID: 4535930

PubMed ID: 26132767

SO-VID: 041a2883-10b7-4049-8404-ccc16849a325

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