Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus: A Case-Control Study of Hospitalized Patients

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Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID)
Volume 59 Issue 2 July 15, 2014
http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/current

Editor’s choice: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus: A Case-Control Study of Hospitalized Patients
Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Kareem Hinedi, Jihad Ghandour, Hanan Khairalla, Samir Musleh, Alaa Ujayli,
and Ziad A. Memish
Clin Infect Dis. (2014) 59 (2): 160-165 doi:10.1093/cid/ciu226
Abstract
This case-control study of hospitalized patients compared underlying conditions, symptoms, signs, laboratory data, and radiographic presentations between Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)–positive and –negative patients. Those with MERS-CoV were more likely to be overweight and to have diabetes mellitus, end-stage renal disease, tachypnea, and a normal white blood cell count on bivariate analysis.