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A case of imported Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus infection and public health response, Greece, April 2014

Published:2014-04-24 Issue:16 Volume:19 Page:
ISSN:1560-7917
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Author:

Tsiodras S¹²,Baka A¹,Mentis A³,Iliopoulos D¹,Dedoukou X¹,Papamavrou G¹,Karadima S¹,Emmanouil M³,Kossyvakis A³,Spanakis N⁴,Pavli A¹,Maltezou H¹,Karageorgou A⁵,Spala G¹,Pitiriga V⁴,Kosmas E⁶,Tsiagklis S⁶,Gkatzias S⁶,Koulouris N G⁷,Koutsoukou A⁸,Bakakos P⁷,Markozanhs E⁷,Dionellis G⁷,Pontikis K⁸,Rovina N⁸,Kyriakopoulou M⁸,Efstathiou P⁵,Papadimitriou T¹,Kremastinou J¹,Tsakris A⁴,Saroglou G⁶¹

Affiliation:

1. Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Athens, Greece

2. University of Athens Medical School, Athens Greece

3. Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece

4. Microbiology Department, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

5. National Health Operations Center, Athens, Greece

6. Metropolitan Hospital Athens Greece

7. First Department of Respiratory Medicine, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

8. Intensive Care Medicine first Department of Respiratory Medicine, University of Athens Medical School, Athens Greece

Abstract

On 18 April 2014, a case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection was laboratory confirmed in Athens, Greece in a patient returning from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Main symptoms upon initial presentation were protracted fever and diarrhoea, during hospitalisation he developed bilateral pneumonia and his condition worsened. During 14 days prior to onset of illness, he had extensive contact with the healthcare environment in Jeddah. Contact tracing revealed 73 contacts, no secondary cases had occurred by 22 April.

Publisher

European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

Subject

Virology,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Epidemiology

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