https://socictopen.socict.org/files/original/0928ccb048cc19ce64d2c7e346b3f2ad.pdf 5e56e2ea935e3003ed2bc3b329c47597 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coronavirus Description An account of the resource Dominio científico: Coronavirus Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contact tracing the first Middle East respiratory syndrome case in the Philippines, February 2015 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sheryl Racelis, Vikki Carr de los Reyes, Ma Nemia Sucaldito, Imelda Deveraturda, John Bobbie Roca, Enrique Tayag Description An account of the resource Background: Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is an illness caused by a coronavirus in which infected persons develop severe acute respiratory illness. A person can be infected through close contacts. This is an outbreak investigation report of the first confirmed MERS case in the Philippines and the subsequent contact tracing activities. Methods: Review of patient records and interviews with health-care personnel were done. Patient and close contacts were tested for MERS-coronavirus (CoV) by real time-polymerase chain reaction. Close contacts were identified and categorized. All traced contacts were monitored daily for appearance of illness for 14 days starting from the date of last known exposure to the confirmed case. A standard log sheet was used for symptom monitoring. Results: The case was a 31-year-old female who was a health-care worker in Saudi Arabia. She had mild acute respiratory illness five days before travelling to the Philippines. On 1 February, she travelled with her husband to the Philippines while she had a fever. On 2 February, she attended a health facility in the Philippines. On 8 February, respiratory samples were tested for MERS-CoV and yielded positive results. A total of 449 close contacts were identified, and 297 (66%) were traced. Of those traced, 15 developed respiratory symptoms. All of them tested negative for MERS. Discussion: In this outbreak investigation, the participation of health-care personnel in conducting vigorous contact tracing may have reduced the risk of transmission. However, being overly cautious to include more contacts for the outbreak response should be further reconsidered. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015 Subject The topic of the resource Middle East respiratory syndrome, Contact Tracing, Outbreak investigation, Philippines Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DOI: 10.5365/wpsar.2015.6.2.012 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available World Health Organization Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Public aspects of medicine, Medicine Language A language of the resource EN, ZH