id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cord-334738-k6002qzb	Shalhoub, S.	MERS-CoV in a healthcare worker in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: an index case investigation	2016-04-16		.txt	text/plain	2029	114	57	In September 2015, a confirmed case of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) was diagnosed in a healthcare worker in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The investigation identified a probable source of an index case who had been in hospital in Jordan in August 2015 while there was an ongoing MERS outbreak and who then subsequently sought medical care in Jeddah. Once the MERS-CoV diagnosis was confirmed, patient A was moved to a negative pressure isolation room in the intensive care unit (ICU). Infection control measures were taken as follows: all patients present in ED on the day of patient A's diagnosis were screened for MERS-CoV using lower respiratory tract samples or NP samples using RTePCR. Patients who had fever, cough, leucopenia, hypo-oxygenation or infiltrates on chest X-ray were considered highly suspected MERS-CoV cases and were therefore moved to negative pressure isolation rooms while screening was undertaken.	./cache/cord-334738-k6002qzb.txt	./txt/cord-334738-k6002qzb.txt