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. 2016 Jan 25;31(1):81–84. doi: 10.1007/s12250-015-3679-z

Risk factors for severity and mortality in patients with MERS-CoV: Analysis of publicly available data from Saudi Arabia

Gouri Rani Banik 1,2,, Amani Salem Alqahtani 1,3, Robert Booy 1,4,5, Harunor Rashid 1,4
PMCID: PMC7090713  PMID: 26826080

Abstract

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Keywords: Influenza, Intensive Care Unit Admission, Emerg Infect, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, VIROLOGICA SINICA

Footnotes

These authors contributed equally to this work.

ORCID: 0000-0002-5442-9772

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