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

Euro Surveill. 2014 May 29;19(21):20817. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.es2014.19.21.20817.

Abstract

Two 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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Coronavirus / genetics*
  • Coronavirus / isolation & purification
  • Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis*
  • Coronavirus Infections / transmission
  • Coronavirus Infections / virology
  • Cross Infection / transmission
  • Cross Infection / virology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle East
  • Netherlands
  • Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Respiratory Tract Infections / diagnosis*
  • Respiratory Tract Infections / virology
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Syndrome
  • Travel*