• Eurosurveillance · May 2014

    Case Reports

    Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infections in two returning travellers in the Netherlands, May 2014.

    • M Kraaij-Dirkzwager, A Timen, K Dirksen, L Gelinck, E Leyten, P Groeneveld, C Jansen, M Jonges, S Raj, I Thurkow, R van Gageldonk-Lafeber, A van der Eijk, M Koopmans, and MERS-CoV outbreak investigation team of the Netherlands.
    • National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) National Coordination Centre for Communicable Disease Control, Bilthoven, the Netherlands.
    • Eurosurveillance. 2014 May 29; 19 (21).

    AbstractTwo patients, returning to the Netherlands from pilgrimage in Medina and Mecca, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, were diagnosed with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in May 2014. The source and mode of transmission have not yet been determined. Hospital-acquired infection and community-acquired infection are both possible.

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