Table 1.

Characteristics of travel-associated cases of Middle East coronavirus syndrome (2012–2014)^a.

Country of diagnostic	Country of current residence	Year	Age (years)/gender	Likely place of exposure	Travel duration (days)	Reason for travel	Outcome	Possible source of infection	PCR target genes	References^a
UK	Qatar	2012	49/M	Qatar and KSA	NA	Medical transfert	Died	Visited a camel farm	UpE and ORF1	[1,2]
Germany (Essen)	Qatar	2012	45/M	Qatar	NA	Medical transfert	Recovered	Contacts with camels	UpE and ORF1	[3,4]
Germany (Munich)	UAE	2013	73/M	UAE	NA	Medical transfert	Died	Contacts with camels	UpE and ORF1	[5,6]
France	France	2013	64/M	UAE	8	ND	Died	ND	UpE and ORF1	[7,8]
Italy	Italy	2013	45/M	Jordan	40	Holiday	Recovered	ND	UpE	[9]
Tunisia	Tunisia	2013	66/M	Qatar and KSA	31 in Qatar and 8 in KSA	Visit family + Umrah	Died	None identified	ORF1 and N2	[10]
Tunisia	Qatar (expatriate)	2013	30/F	Qatar and KSA	NA	Umrah + attended funerals in Tunisia	Recovered	Exposure to MERS patient	UpE and ORF1	[10]
UK	UK	2013	55/M	Pakistan and KSA	35 in Pakistan, 8 in KSA	Visit family + Umrah	Died	None identified	UpE and two other genes	[11]
Netherlands	Netherlands	2014	70/M	KSA	16	Umrah	Recovered	Hospitalization in Saudi Arabia	UpE, N and ORF1	[12,13]
Netherlands	Netherlands	2014	73/F	KSA	16	Umrah	Recovered	Exposure to MERS patient	UpE, N and ORF1	[12,13]
Algeria	Algeria	2014	66/M	KSA	14	Umrah	Recovered	ND	UpE, N and ORF1	[14-16]
Algeria	Algeria	2014	59/M	KSA	24	Umrah	Died	ND	UpE, N and ORF1	[14-16]
Greece	KSA (expatriate)	2014	69/M	KSA	NA	Visit to citizenship country	Died	Visited hospitals in Saudi Arabia and had indirect contacts with bats	UpE, N and ORF1	[17,18]
US (Indiana)	KSA (expatriate)	2014	65/M	KSA	NA	Visit to citizenship country	Recovered	Exposure to MERS patients (HCW)	ORF1 and N2	[19,20]
US (Florida)	KSA (expatriate)	2014	44/M	KSA	NA	Visit to citizenship country	Recovered	Exposure to MERS patients (HCW)	ORF1 and N2	[20]
Malaysia	Malaysia	2014	55/M	KSA	13	Umrah	Died	Drank raw camel milk	UpE, N and ORF1	[21]
Egypt	KSA (expatriate)	2014	27/M	KSA	NA	Visit to citizenship country	Recovered	Exposure to MERS patients	Confirmed according to ECDC report	[22,23]
Philippines	UAE (expatriate)	2014	ND/M	UAE	NA	Visit to citizenship country	Asymptomatic	Exposure to MERS patients (HCW)	Confirmed according to ECDC report	[24]
Bangladesh	US	2014	53/M	UAE	3 h transit in Abu Dhabi airport	Visit to citizenship country	ND	ND	ND	[16]
Turkey	KSA (expatriate)	2014	ND/M	KSA	NA	Visit to citizenship country	Death	ND	ND	[25,26]
Austria	KSA	2014	29/F	KSA	NA	ND	ND	ND	Confirmed according to ECDC report	[27,28]

See online appendix.