The Lancet infectious diseases
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Case Reports
Clinical features and virological analysis of a case of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection.
The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is an emerging virus involved in cases and case clusters of severe acute respiratory infection in the Arabian Peninsula, Tunisia, Morocco, France, Italy, Germany, and the UK. We provide a full description of a fatal case of MERS-CoV infection and associated phylogenetic analyses. ⋯ European Union; German Centre for Infection Research; German Research Council; and German Ministry for Education and Research.
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Estimating attributable mortality of ventilator-associated pneumonia has been hampered by confounding factors, small sample sizes, and the difficulty of doing relevant subgroup analyses. We estimated the attributable mortality using the individual original patient data of published randomised trials of ventilator-associated pneumonia prevention. ⋯ None.