Risk of transmission via medical employees and importance of routine infection-prevention policy in a nosocomial outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS): a descriptive analysis from a tertiary care hospital in South Korea

Table 1 Summary of Middle East respiratory syndrome patients infected from index patient

Site	Index patient	No.	Position	Incubation period	Risk of contact	Result
Hospital B (6–7 June)	ED stay during 17 h	1	Patient	13 days	Unknown	Survived
		2	Patient	13 days	Unknown	Survived
		3	Care giver	16 days	High	Death
		4	Nurse	20 days	High	Survived
		5	Doctor	10 days	High	Survived
Transfer (7 June)	Ambulance during 10 min	6	Driver	6 days	High	Death
Transfer (7 June)	Ambulance during 10 min	7	EMT	7 days	High	Survived
Hospital C (7 June)	ED stay during 9 h	8	Radiologist	14 days	High	Survived
	GW stay during 1 h	9	Visitor	8 days	High	Survived
		10	Patient	15 days	Low	Survived
		11	Patient	17 days	Low	Survived

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