Serologic evaluation of MERS screening strategy for healthcare personnel during a hospital-associated outbreak

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Abstract

To evaluate the appropriateness of the screening strategy for healthcare personnel (HCP) during a hospital-associated Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak, we performed a serologic investigation in 189 rRT-PCR-negative HCP exposed and assigned to MERS patients. Although 20%-25% of HCP experienced MERS-like symptoms, none of them showed seroconversion by plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)234-238
Number of pages5
JournalInfection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
Volume38
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Feb 2017

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