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cord-275404-hv3y4x4g	Zumla, Alimuddin	Infection control and MERS-CoV in health-care workers	2014-05-20		.txt	text/plain	1527	80	48	1 The WHO Emergency Committee concluded that the increase in cases reported among health-care workers from hospitals in Jeddah was amplifi ed due to overcrowding and inadequate infection control measures. 11 On the basis of analysis of data in a case-control study that involved 124 medical wards in 26 hospitals in Guangzhou, China, and Hong Kong, the risk factors for super-spreading events of SARS-CoV in the hospital setting were: close separation between beds of less than 1 m; performance of resuscitation; staff working while experiencing symptoms; and patients requiring oxygen or non-invasive ventilation therapy. A systematic review of fi ve case-control and fi ve retrospective cohort studies identifi ed tracheal intubation, tracheotomy, and manual ventilation before intubation as procedures associated with risk of transmission of SARS-CoV to health-care workers. Interim infection prevention and control recommendations for hospitalized patients with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)	./cache/cord-275404-hv3y4x4g.txt	./txt/cord-275404-hv3y4x4g.txt