Severe Respiratory Illness Outbreak Associated with Human Coronavirus NL63 in a Long-Term Care Facility

We describe an outbreak of severe respiratory illness associated with human coronavirus NL63 in a long-term care facility in Louisiana in November 2017. Six of 20 case-patients were hospitalized with pneumonia, and 3 of 20 died. Clinicians should consider human coronavirus NL63 for patients in simil...

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Main Authors: Julie Hand, Erica Billig Rose, Andrea Salinas, Xiaoyan Lu, Senthilkumar K. Sakthivel, Eileen Schneider, John T. Watson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018-10-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
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USA
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/10/18-0862_article