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Volume 20, Number 9—September 2014
Dispatch

Enhanced MERS Coronavirus Surveillance of Travelers from the Middle East to England

Helen Lucy Thomas, Hongxin Zhao, Helen K. Green, Nicola L. Boddington, Carlos F.A. Carvalho, Husam K. Osman, Carol Sadler, Maria Zambon, Alison Bermingham, and Richard G. PebodyComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Public Health England, London, UK (H.L. Thomas, H. Zhao, H.K. Green, N.L. Boddington, C.F.A. Carvalho, C. Sadler, M. Zambon, A. Bermingham, and R.G. Pebody); Public Health England, Birmingham, UK (H.K. Osman)

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Table 1

Results of MERS coronavirus testing of 77 travelers from the Middle East to England by key clinical and epidemiologic characteristics where information available, September 2012–October 2013

Characteristics No. tested No. (%) MERS coronavirus–positive
Age group, y
0–4 5 0
5–17 1 0
18–44 10 0
45–64 34 2 (6)
≥65 25 0
Unknown 2 0
Sex
M 49 2 (4)
F 26 0
Unknown 2 0
Clinical history
Fever 51 2 (4)
Cough 51 2 (4)
Pulmonary parenchymal involvement 34 2 (6)
Acute respiratory distress syndrome 7 2 (29)
Mechanical ventilation 15 2 (13)
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation 2 2 (100)



Travel history in exposure period* before symptom onset†
Israel 1 0
Jordan 1 0
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 40 1 (3)
Qatar 7 1 (14)
United Arab Emirates 27 0
Yemen 1 0

*Exposure period was 10 days until June 2013, when it was increased to 14 days.
†Some patients had also traveled to countries outside the Middle East.

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