TY - JOUR AU - Park, Jung Wan AU - Lee, Keon Joo AU - Lee, Kang Hyoung AU - Lee, Sang Hyup AU - Cho, Jung Rae AU - Mo, Jin Won AU - Choi, Soo Young AU - Kwon, Geun Yong AU - Shin, Ji-Yeon AU - Hong, Jee Young AU - Kim, Jin AU - Yeon, Mi-Yeon AU - Oh, Jong Seok AU - Nam, Hae-Sung T1 - Hospital Outbreaks of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Daejeon, South Korea, 2015 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2017 VL - 23 IS - 6 SP - 898 SN - 1080-6059 AB - From May through July 2015, a total of 26 cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome were reported from 2 hospitals in Daejeon, South Korea, including 1 index case and 25 new cases. We examined the epidemiologic features of these cases and found an estimated median incubation period of 6.1 days (8.8 days in hospital A and 4.6 days in hospital B). The overall attack rate was 3.7% (4.7% in hospital A and 3.0% in hospital B), and the attack rates among inpatients and caregivers in the same ward were 12.3% and 22.5%, respectively. The overall case-fatality rate was 44.0% (28.6% in hospital A and 63.6% in hospital B). The use of cohort quarantine may have played a role in preventing community spread, but additional transmission occurred among members of the hospital cohort quarantined together. Caregivers may have contributed in part to the transmission. KW - Middle East respiratory syndrome KW - MERS KW - hospital-acquired condition KW - outbreaks KW - viruses KW - zoonoses KW - South Korea DO - 10.3201/eid2306.160120 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/6/16-0120_article ER - End of Reference