Clinical and laboratory findings of the first imported case of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus to the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was discovered September 2012 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The first US case of MERS-CoV was confirmed on 2 May 2014.

Methods

We summarize the clinical symptoms and signs, laboratory and radiologic findings, and MERS-CoV-specific tests.

Results

The patient is a 65-year-old physician who worked in a hospital in KSA where MERS-CoV patients were treated. His illness onset included malaise, myalgias, and low-grade fever. He flew to the United States on day of illness (DOI) 7. His first respiratory symptom, a dry cough, developed on DOI 10. On DOI 11, he presented to an Indiana hospital as dyspneic, hypoxic, and with a right lower lobe infiltrate on chest radiography. On DOI 12, his serum teste

SUBMITTER: Kapoor M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4650772 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature