The first clusters of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in Oman: Time to act
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Auteurs : Salah T. Al Awaidy [Oman] ; Ali Abdullah Al Maqbali [Oman] ; Iyad Omer [Oman] ; Suad Al Mukhaini [Oman] ; Mohammed Ali Al Risi [Oman] ; Majed Sultan Al Maqbali [Oman] ; Ali Al Reesi [Oman] ; Mujahid Al Busaidi [Oman] ; Fatma Hashim Al Hashmi [Oman] ; Talib Khamis Al Maqbali [Oman] ; Vidyanand Vaidya [Oman] ; Elham Said Ahmed Al Risi [Oman] ; Talib Khamis Al Maqbali [Oman] ; Ahmed Abdullah Rashid [Oman] ; Maryam Abdullah Hassan Al Beloshi [Oman] ; Arash Etemadi [Oman] ; Faryal Khamis [Oman]Source :
- Journal of Infection and Public Health [ 1876-0341 ] ; 2020.
Abstract
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), is an emerging infectious disease of growing global importance. This review describes the latest MERS-CoV clusters and the first cases of nosocomial transmission within health care facilities in Oman. We have highlighted lessons learned and proposed steps to prevent healthcare-associated infections.
A descriptive analysis of MERS-CoV cases was conducted between January 23 and February 16, 2019. The data from officials and other published sources used.
Thirteen laboratory-confirmed cases of MERS-CoV were reported from three simultaneous clusters from two governorates without an epidemiological link between the clusters. Two clusters were reported from North Al Batinah Governorate, with nine cases (69%) and 1 cluster from South Ash Sharqiyah Governorate with four cases (31%). In total, four deaths were reported (case fatality rate 31%). Four cases (31%) reported were household contacts from the first cluster, 3 (23%) were nosocomial transmission in health care facilities (two for first and one from the second cluster) and 7 (54%) were community-acquired cases.
The first local clusters of MERS-CoV reported with evidence suggestive of healthcare and household-associated transmission. Early diagnosis and strict implementation of infection control measures remain fundamental in preventing and managing MERS-CoV infection.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2020.03.002
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Khamis</name><affiliation wicri:level="1"><nlm:aff id="aff0035">Royal Hospital, Ministry of Health, Oman</nlm:aff><country xml:lang="fr">Oman</country><wicri:regionArea>Royal Hospital, Ministry of Health</wicri:regionArea><wicri:noRegion>Ministry of Health</wicri:noRegion></affiliation></author></analytic><series><title level="j">Journal of Infection and Public Health</title><idno type="ISSN">1876-0341</idno><idno type="eISSN">1876-035X</idno><imprint><date when="2020">2020</date></imprint></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en"><sec><title>Introduction</title><p>Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), is an emerging infectious disease of growing global importance. This review describes the latest MERS-CoV clusters and the first cases of nosocomial transmission within health care facilities in Oman. We have highlighted lessons learned and proposed steps to prevent healthcare-associated infections.</p></sec><sec><title>Methods</title><p>A descriptive analysis of MERS-CoV cases was conducted between January 23 and February 16, 2019. The data from officials and other published sources used.</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>Thirteen laboratory-confirmed cases of MERS-CoV were reported from three simultaneous clusters from two governorates without an epidemiological link between the clusters. Two clusters were reported from North Al Batinah Governorate, with nine cases (69%) and 1 cluster from South Ash Sharqiyah Governorate with four cases (31%). In total, four deaths were reported (case fatality rate 31%). Four cases (31%) reported were household contacts from the first cluster, 3 (23%) were nosocomial transmission in health care facilities (two for first and one from the second cluster) and 7 (54%) were community-acquired cases.</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusions</title><p>The first local clusters of MERS-CoV reported with evidence suggestive of healthcare and household-associated transmission. Early diagnosis and strict implementation of infection control measures remain fundamental in preventing and managing MERS-CoV infection.</p></sec></div></front><back><div1 type="bibliography"><listBibl><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Zaki, A M" uniqKey="Zaki A">A.M. Zaki</name></author><author><name sortKey="Van Boheemen, S" uniqKey="Van Boheemen S">S. van Boheemen</name></author><author><name sortKey="Bestebroer, T M" uniqKey="Bestebroer T">T.M. Bestebroer</name></author><author><name sortKey="Osterhaus, A D" uniqKey="Osterhaus A">A.D. 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<front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">J Infect Public Health</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">J Infect Public Health</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Journal of Infection and Public Health</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1876-0341</issn><issn pub-type="epub">1876-035X</issn><publisher><publisher-name>The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences.</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">7162632</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">S1876-0341(20)30402-0</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/j.jiph.2020.03.002</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>The first clusters of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in Oman: Time to act</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0005"><name><surname>Al Awaidy</surname><given-names>Salah T.</given-names></name><email>salah.awaidy@gmail.com</email><xref rid="aff0005" ref-type="aff">a</xref><xref rid="cor0005" ref-type="corresp">⁎</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0010"><name><surname>Al Maqbali</surname><given-names>Ali Abdullah</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0010" ref-type="aff">b</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0015"><name><surname>Omer</surname><given-names>Iyad</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0015" ref-type="aff">c</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0020"><name><surname>Al Mukhaini</surname><given-names>Suad</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0020" ref-type="aff">d</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0025"><name><surname>Al Risi</surname><given-names>Mohammed Ali</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0025" ref-type="aff">e</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0030"><name><surname>Al Maqbali</surname><given-names>Majed Sultan</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0025" ref-type="aff">e</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0035"><name><surname>Al Reesi</surname><given-names>Ali</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0025" ref-type="aff">e</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0040"><name><surname>Al Busaidi</surname><given-names>Mujahid</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0030" ref-type="aff">f</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0045"><name><surname>Al Hashmi</surname><given-names>Fatma Hashim</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0025" ref-type="aff">e</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0050"><name><surname>Al Maqbali</surname><given-names>Talib Khamis</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0025" ref-type="aff">e</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0055"><name><surname>Vaidya</surname><given-names>Vidyanand</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0010" ref-type="aff">b</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0060"><name><surname>Al Risi</surname><given-names>Elham Said Ahmed</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0025" ref-type="aff">e</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0065"><name><surname>Al Maqbali</surname><given-names>Talib Khamis</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0025" ref-type="aff">e</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0070"><name><surname>Rashid</surname><given-names>Ahmed Abdullah</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0025" ref-type="aff">e</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0075"><name><surname>Al Beloshi</surname><given-names>Maryam Abdullah Hassan</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0025" ref-type="aff">e</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0080"><name><surname>Etemadi</surname><given-names>Arash</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0025" ref-type="aff">e</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="aut0085"><name><surname>Khamis</surname><given-names>Faryal</given-names></name><email>khami001@gmail.com</email><xref rid="aff0035" ref-type="aff">g</xref><xref rid="cor0010" ref-type="corresp">⁎⁎</xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff0005"><label>a</label>Office of Health Affairs, Ministry of Health, Oman</aff><aff id="aff0010"><label>b</label>Directorate Health Services, North Al Batinah Governorate, Ministry of Health, Oman</aff><aff id="aff0015"><label>c</label>Directorate Health Services, South Ash Sharqiyah Governorate, Ministry of Health, Oman</aff><aff id="aff0020"><label>d</label>Sur Hospital, South ASharqiyah Governorate, Ministry of Health, Oman</aff><aff id="aff0025"><label>e</label>Sohar Hospital, North Al Batinah Governorate, Ministry of Health, Oman</aff><aff id="aff0030"><label>f</label>Sultan Qabous University Hospital, Oman</aff><aff id="aff0035"><label>g</label>Royal Hospital, Ministry of Health, Oman</aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor0005"><label>⁎</label>Corresponding author at: P.O. Box 393 PC 100, Muscat, Oman. <email>salah.awaidy@gmail.com</email></corresp><corresp id="cor0010"><label>⁎⁎</label>Corresponding author at: P.O. Box 1331 PC 111, Muscat Oman. <email>khami001@gmail.com</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="pmc-release"><day>16</day><month>4</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><pmc-comment> PMC Release delay is 0 months and 0 days and was based on .</pmc-comment>
<pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>16</day><month>4</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><history><date date-type="received"><day>12</day><month>2</month><year>2020</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>2</day><month>3</month><year>2020</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>© 2020 The Authors</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2020</copyright-year><license><license-p>Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract id="abs0005"><sec><title>Introduction</title><p>Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), is an emerging infectious disease of growing global importance. This review describes the latest MERS-CoV clusters and the first cases of nosocomial transmission within health care facilities in Oman. We have highlighted lessons learned and proposed steps to prevent healthcare-associated infections.</p></sec><sec><title>Methods</title><p>A descriptive analysis of MERS-CoV cases was conducted between January 23 and February 16, 2019. The data from officials and other published sources used.</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>Thirteen laboratory-confirmed cases of MERS-CoV were reported from three simultaneous clusters from two governorates without an epidemiological link between the clusters. Two clusters were reported from North Al Batinah Governorate, with nine cases (69%) and 1 cluster from South Ash Sharqiyah Governorate with four cases (31%). In total, four deaths were reported (case fatality rate 31%). Four cases (31%) reported were household contacts from the first cluster, 3 (23%) were nosocomial transmission in health care facilities (two for first and one from the second cluster) and 7 (54%) were community-acquired cases.</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusions</title><p>The first local clusters of MERS-CoV reported with evidence suggestive of healthcare and household-associated transmission. Early diagnosis and strict implementation of infection control measures remain fundamental in preventing and managing MERS-CoV infection.</p></sec></abstract><kwd-group id="kwd0005"><title>Keywords</title><kwd>Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus</kwd><kwd>MERS</kwd><kwd>MERS-CoV</kwd><kwd>Healthcare associated transmission</kwd><kwd>Household-associated transmission</kwd><kwd>Nosocomial infection</kwd><kwd>Infection control</kwd><kwd>Oman</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></pmc><affiliations><list><country><li>Oman</li></country></list><tree><country name="Oman"><noRegion><name sortKey="Al Awaidy, Salah T" sort="Al Awaidy, Salah T" uniqKey="Al Awaidy S" first="Salah T." last="Al Awaidy">Salah T. Al Awaidy</name></noRegion><name sortKey="Al Beloshi, Maryam Abdullah Hassan" sort="Al Beloshi, Maryam Abdullah Hassan" uniqKey="Al Beloshi M" first="Maryam Abdullah Hassan" last="Al Beloshi">Maryam Abdullah Hassan Al Beloshi</name><name sortKey="Al Busaidi, Mujahid" sort="Al Busaidi, Mujahid" uniqKey="Al Busaidi M" first="Mujahid" last="Al Busaidi">Mujahid Al Busaidi</name><name sortKey="Al Hashmi, Fatma Hashim" sort="Al Hashmi, Fatma Hashim" uniqKey="Al Hashmi F" first="Fatma Hashim" last="Al Hashmi">Fatma Hashim Al Hashmi</name><name sortKey="Al Maqbali, Ali Abdullah" sort="Al Maqbali, Ali Abdullah" uniqKey="Al Maqbali A" first="Ali Abdullah" last="Al Maqbali">Ali Abdullah Al Maqbali</name><name sortKey="Al Maqbali, Majed Sultan" sort="Al Maqbali, Majed Sultan" uniqKey="Al Maqbali M" first="Majed Sultan" last="Al Maqbali">Majed Sultan Al Maqbali</name><name sortKey="Al Maqbali, Talib Khamis" sort="Al Maqbali, Talib Khamis" uniqKey="Al Maqbali T" first="Talib Khamis" last="Al Maqbali">Talib Khamis Al Maqbali</name><name sortKey="Al Maqbali, Talib Khamis" sort="Al Maqbali, Talib Khamis" uniqKey="Al Maqbali T" first="Talib Khamis" last="Al Maqbali">Talib Khamis Al Maqbali</name><name sortKey="Al Mukhaini, Suad" sort="Al Mukhaini, Suad" uniqKey="Al Mukhaini S" first="Suad" last="Al Mukhaini">Suad Al Mukhaini</name><name sortKey="Al Reesi, Ali" sort="Al Reesi, Ali" uniqKey="Al Reesi A" first="Ali" last="Al Reesi">Ali Al Reesi</name><name sortKey="Al Risi, Elham Said Ahmed" sort="Al Risi, Elham Said Ahmed" uniqKey="Al Risi E" first="Elham Said Ahmed" last="Al Risi">Elham Said Ahmed Al Risi</name><name sortKey="Al Risi, Mohammed Ali" sort="Al Risi, Mohammed Ali" uniqKey="Al Risi M" first="Mohammed Ali" last="Al Risi">Mohammed Ali Al Risi</name><name sortKey="Etemadi, Arash" sort="Etemadi, Arash" uniqKey="Etemadi A" first="Arash" last="Etemadi">Arash Etemadi</name><name sortKey="Khamis, Faryal" sort="Khamis, Faryal" uniqKey="Khamis F" first="Faryal" last="Khamis">Faryal Khamis</name><name sortKey="Omer, Iyad" sort="Omer, Iyad" uniqKey="Omer I" first="Iyad" last="Omer">Iyad Omer</name><name sortKey="Rashid, Ahmed Abdullah" sort="Rashid, Ahmed Abdullah" uniqKey="Rashid A" first="Ahmed Abdullah" last="Rashid">Ahmed Abdullah Rashid</name><name sortKey="Vaidya, Vidyanand" sort="Vaidya, Vidyanand" uniqKey="Vaidya V" first="Vidyanand" last="Vaidya">Vidyanand Vaidya</name></country></tree></affiliations></record>Pour manipuler ce document sous Unix (Dilib)
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