title: Risk factors for severity and mortality in patients with MERS-CoV: Analysis of publicly available data from Saudi Arabia.
authors.affiliation: National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS), The Children's Hospital at Westmead, and the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2145, Australia. Gouri.Banik@uts.edu.au.|University of Technology Sydney, School of Medical and Molecular Biosciences, Broadway, Sydney, NSW, 2007, Australia. Gouri.Banik@uts.edu.au.
authors.forename: Gouri Rani
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Banik
authors.affiliation: National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS), The Children's Hospital at Westmead, and the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2145, Australia.|School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
authors.forename: Amani Salem
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Alqahtani
authors.affiliation: National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS), The Children's Hospital at Westmead, and the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2145, Australia.|Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, School of Biological Sciences and Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2145, Australia.|WHO Collaborating Centre for Mass Gatherings and High Consequence/High Visibility Events, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, 5001, Australia.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Booy
authors.affiliation: National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS), The Children's Hospital at Westmead, and the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2145, Australia.|Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, School of Biological Sciences and Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2145, Australia.
authors.forename: Harunor
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rashid
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000818:Animals; D002162:Camelus; D060085:Coinfection / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000821:virology; D018352:Coronavirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D065207:Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D009017:Morbidity; D064266:Preexisting Condition Coverage / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012307:Risk Factors; D012529:Saudi Arabia / Q000453:epidemiology
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