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cord-253337-xdexrlq3	Park, Jung Wan	Hospital Outbreaks of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Daejeon, South Korea, 2015	2017-06-17		.txt	text/plain	4549	237	54	After the South Korea government recognized the outbreak of MERS in Daejeon, cohort quarantine (isolation of persons who had been in contact with patients with confirmed cases in the hospital ward) was applied. Epidemiologic investigators of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started their outbreak investigation with face-to-face interviews of the index casepatient in Daejeon and the 25 additional case-patients with confirmed MERS-CoV infection. When we checked the closed-circuit television recordings from hospital A to estimate how many persons could have been in contact with the Daejeon index case-patient, we found that he had been in several sections of the hospital ward, in particular those located on the left side of the nurse station. Quarantine policy to prevent additional transmission of MERS, Daejeon, South Korea* Action  The cohort quarantine applied to admitted patients and their caregivers (professional or family) exposed to the MERS case-patients.	./cache/cord-253337-xdexrlq3.txt	./txt/cord-253337-xdexrlq3.txt