id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-321260-oi37dfsp Ahmed, Anwar E. Estimating survival rates in MERS-CoV patients 14 and 45 days after experiencing symptoms and determining the differences in survival rates by demographic data, disease characteristics and regions: a worldwide study 2017-12-22 .txt text/plain 3034 167 55 title: Estimating survival rates in MERS-CoV patients 14 and 45 days after experiencing symptoms and determining the differences in survival rates by demographic data, disease characteristics and regions: a worldwide study The author hypothesised that people of older age, with underlying medical conditions and from Saudi Arabia or other Middle East countries are at high risk of death related to MERS-CoV. The author obtained information on age, gender, date of notification, date of onset of MERS symptoms, date of outcome or death, whether a patient or healthcare worker, symptomatic, underlying medical conditions, source of infection and the reported country. For the MERS patients studied, the Republic of Korea or other countries (95.83% and 91.67%) had much higher 14-and 45-day survival rates than the Middle East (84.09% and 75.00%) and Saudi Arabia (82.51% and 62.92%), respectively. ./cache/cord-321260-oi37dfsp.txt ./txt/cord-321260-oi37dfsp.txt