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

In 2015, South Korea experienced an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and our hospital experienced a nosocomial MERS infection. We performed a comprehensive analysis to identify the MERS transmission route and the ability of our routine infection-prevention policy to control this outbreak.