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Factors associated with recovery delay in a sample of patients diagnosed by MERS-CoV rRT-PCR: A Saudi Arabian multicenter retrospective study.

Anwar E AhmedHamdan Al-JahdaliMody AlaqeelSalma S SiddiqHanan A AlsaabEzzeldin A SakrHamed A AlyahyaMunzir M AlandonisiAlaa T SubedarYosra Z AliHazza Al OtaibiNouf M AloudahSalim BaharoonSameera Al JohaniMohammed G Alghamdi
Published in: Influenza and other respiratory viruses (2018)
The study evidence supports that longer recovery delay was seen in patients of older age, MERS-CoV infection, ICU admission, and abnormal radiology findings. Shorter recovery delay was found in patients who had camel contact and respiratory symptoms at presentation. These findings may help us understand clinical decision making on directing hospital resources toward prompt screening, monitoring, and implementing clinical recovery and treatment strategies.
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