The Role of Superspreading in Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) Transmission

Overview

Journal Euro Surveill

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2015 Jul 2

PMID 26132768

Citations 115

Authors

A J Kucharski

C L Althaus

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Abstract

As at 15 June 2015, a large transmission cluster of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERSCoV)was ongoing in South Korea. To examine the potential for such events, we estimated the level of heterogeneity in MERS-CoV transmission by analyzing data on cluster size distributions. We found substantial potential for superspreading; even though it is likely that R0 < 1 overall, our analysis indicates that cluster sizes of over 150 cases are not unexpected forMERS-CoV infection.

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