TY - JOUR AU - Mizumoto, Kenji AU - Endo, Akira AU - Chowell, Gerardo AU - Miyamatsu, Yuichiro AU - Saitoh, Masaya AU - Nishiura, Hiroshi PY - 2015 DA - 2015/09/30 TI - Real-time characterization of risks of death associated with the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in the Republic of Korea, 2015 JO - BMC Medicine SP - 228 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - An outbreak of the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), comprising 185 cases linked to healthcare facilities, occurred in the Republic of Korea from May to July 2015. Owing to the nosocomial nature of the outbreak, it is particularly important to gain a better understanding of the epidemiological determinants characterizing the risk of MERS death in order to predict the heterogeneous risk of death in medical settings. SN - 1741-7015 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-015-0468-3 DO - 10.1186/s12916-015-0468-3 ID - Mizumoto2015 ER -