Risk factors for severity and mortality in patients with MERS-CoV: Analysis of publicly available data from Saudi Arabia

Virol Sin. 2016 Feb;31(1):81-4. doi: 10.1007/s12250-015-3679-z.

Gouri Rani Banik^{1

2}, Amani Salem Alqahtani^{3

4}, Robert Booy^{3

5

6}, Harunor Rashid^{3

5}

¹ National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS), The Children's Hospital at Westmead, and the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2145, Australia. Gouri.Banik@uts.edu.au.
² University of Technology Sydney, School of Medical and Molecular Biosciences, Broadway, Sydney, NSW, 2007, Australia. Gouri.Banik@uts.edu.au.
³ National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS), The Children's Hospital at Westmead, and the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2145, Australia.
⁴ School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
⁵ Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, School of Biological Sciences and Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2145, Australia.
⁶ WHO Collaborating Centre for Mass Gatherings and High Consequence/High Visibility Events, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, 5001, Australia.

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